Anachastis

Anachastis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Subfamily: Xyloryctinae
Genus: Anachastis
Meyrick, 1911
Species: A. digitata
Binomial name
Anachastis digitata
Meyrick, 1911

Anachastis is a genus of moths of the Xyloryctidae family from the Seychelles.[1] It contains only one species, Anachastis digitata.

The wingspan 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.[2]

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