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Anarsia hippocoma

Species of moth

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ13370055 ↗
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Anarsia hippocoma is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Queensland.

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, slightly speckled with grey whitish and with irregularly scattered coarse black scales. There are eight or nine small dark spots along the costa separated by pale irroration (speckles) and there is an oblique transverse blackish streak at about one-fourth of the wing, not reaching the margins. The hindwings are grey.

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“Anarsia hippocoma” enters the record as species of moth. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anarsia, hippocoma and Species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13370055. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anarsia hippocoma” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.