Galapagos Species Database

The dark brown forewing pattern with a postmedian pair of white crescents usually joined medially is unique among galapagos gelechiidae and other microlepidoptera. several species, notably Syncopacma species from europe, have a dark brown forewing with a complete or incomplete postmedian line, but in all european species this line is straight. some North American species with this pattern are placed in genus Anacampsis. The most similar are A. agrimoniella (Clemens, 1860), described from Pennsylvania, usA, and A. lupinella Busck, 1901 (some specimens only), described from ontario, Canada, but in both of these species the postmedian line is straight, although it can be incomplete in the latter (Landry & Roque, 2010).

Specimens found at sea level up to 700 m, from February until May.