''Anachastis'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

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 ...

s of the family

Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While many of these moths are tiny, some members of the family grow to a wing ...

from the

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. It contains only one species, ''Anachastis digitata''. The

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is about 21 mm. The forewings are pale greyish-ochreous irregularly tinged with crimson-pink, with scattered brown and blackish scales. The second discal stigma is dark grey and there is a reddish-fuscous outwardly oblique streak from the dorsum before the middle, not reaching the fold, and a similar inwardly oblique streak from the tornus. The hindwings are light grey.Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (2) 14 : 288

References

*Meyrick, E. 1911d. Tortricina and Tineina. ''Results of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905.'' - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2)14(3):263–307. Xyloryctidae Monotypic moth genera Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Moths of Africa Xyloryctidae genera {{Xyloryctidae-stub

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