''Anarsia idioptila'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1916. It is found in

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is about 10 mm. The forewings are grey, irregularly sprinkled with blackish, and sprinkled with whitish towards the costa and on the posterior half. There are five oblique dark fuscous marks on the costa from one-fifth to three-fourths, the median largest. There is a blackish dot towards the costa near the base and a short subcostal line of black scales about one-third. An indistinct blackish dash is found in the middle of the disc. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and sub

hyaline A hyaline substance is one with a glassy appearance. The word is derived from el, ὑάλινος, translit=hyálinos, lit=transparent, and el, ὕαλος, translit=hýalos, lit=crystal, glass, label=none. Histopathology Hyaline cartilage is ...

(almost glass like) except towards the apex and termen.Meyrick, Edward (1916)
''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 1 (19): 582.

References

idioptila Moths described in 1916 Moths of Asia {{Anacampsinae-stub