Anacampsis tristrigella

Distinguished from other Anacampsis species by the combination of: steel-grey costal streak extending onto thorax; transverse white fascia with characteristic expansion, narrowing, and dilation pattern; and three to four white apical tooth-like streaks with joined bases. The reduplicated dark brown line separating these streaks from the fringes is particularly distinctive. Greenish iridescence on forewings visible in certain lights provides additional diagnostic cue.

Wingspan approximately 12 mm. Forewings greyish fuscous with greenish hue in certain lighting, bearing a prominent steel-grey streak along the costal margin that extends over the front of the thorax. Distinctive transverse white fascia present beyond the middle, expanded at the costal cilia, narrowed at wing center, and somewhat dilated at dorsal margin. Three to four white tooth-like streaks beyond the fascia, joined at bases toward apical margin, separated from steel-grey fringes by a reduplicated dark brown line that curves around the apex. Hindwings brown with grey fringes, oblique with barely emarginate apex. Costal margin base steel-grey.

North America: recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ontario, Quebec, Tennessee, and Texas.

Larvae feed on Corylus americana (American hazelnut). Adult feeding habits not documented.

• Corylus americana - larval food plantAmerican hazelnut

• Other Anacampsis speciesShare general gelechiid morphology and greyish wing coloration; distinguished by unique pattern of white fascia and apical tooth-like streaks, plus steel-grey costal streak extending onto thorax

• Gelechiidae
• leaf-miner
• hazelnut
• North America
• small moth
• patterned wings

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