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Anchinia furculata

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Anchinia furculata is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1925. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from KwaZulu-Natal. The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are whitish, irregularly sprinkled purplish-grey, with some black scales, the median third faintly rosy-tinged. There is a faint ferruginous tinge beneath the costa towards the base and there are seven cloudy spots of dark purplish-brown suffusion on the costa between one-fourth and the apex, these are darker and more defined posteriorly. A transverse black linear mark is found in the disc at two-fifths, sending posteriorly from its upper extremity a similar longitudinal mark. There is also an irregular partly transverse and partly longitudinal blackish spot in the discal two-th
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0