Galapagos Species Database

Male.— Palpi, head, and thorax light drab, vertex whitish, a black transverse line on collar; abdomen above drab gray, with a few black irrorations, and darker transverse lines, some cinnamon buff hairs in anal tuft, underneath darker; legs deep mouse gray, white rings at base of tarsi; outer spurs on hind tibiae white with a black ring. Fore wing silky, light mouse gray, with a few black irrorations, and transverse striae on medial space; small black spots on costa at origin of lines, a subbasal point in cell, and a larger antemedial point on median, and inner margin; faint antemedial and medial fuscous lines, and a broader shade on inner side of subterminal which is sinuous, whitish gray, defined by darker terminal shading except at apex which is whitish gray; orbicular small, ovate longitudinally, outlined in fuscous; reniform outlined in white partly edged with fuscous; an outcurved postmedial series of black points on veins; a fine terminal black line inwardly edged with some whitish gray scales; basal scales of cilia rather darker. Hind wing whitish suffused on outer half with light drab, the veins drab. Fore wing below and costa of hind wing silkymouse gray, the hind wing otherwise whitish (Schaus, 1923)

A common insect on the Galapagos Islands. Sexes much alike but specimens show some variation in basic coloration from pinkish to grayish brown. Allied to Anicla infecta Ochsenheimer (Hayes, 1975).