''Scythris anthracodelta'' is a
moth
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of the family
Scythrididae. It was described by
Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in
Namibia
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and
South Africa
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(
Limpopo
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).
The
wingspan
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is about 13 mm. The forewings are grey, with a faint purplish tinge. The stigmata are represented by very obscure spots of darker suffusion, the discal approximated, the plical obliquely before the first discal. There is a rather broad white sub-median streak from the base (where it extends suffusedly to the basal portion of the dorsum) to the first discal stigma, impressed beneath by the plical, and continued by some scattered white scales to and around the second discal. There is also a suffused white dot at the apex. The hindwings are grey.
''Annals of the Transvaal Museum'' 3 (1): 72
References
fonticola
Moths described in 1911
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