''Anarsia tortuosa'' is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

(Ryukyus) and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are brown, sprinkled with dark fuscous and with undefined irregular longitudinal streaks of ochreous-whitish suffusion above and below the fold throughout. There is a streak of dark fuscous suffusion along the fold throughout and the rest of the wing irregularly marked with broken longitudinal streaks of dark fuscous suffusion. The costa is suffused with dark fuscous from before the middle to four-fifths. 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) anteriorly, with the veins and termen dark fuscous.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 22 (1): 165.

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tortuosa Moths described in 1913 Moths of Japan Moths of Sri Lanka {{Anacampsinae-stub