Telphusa calathaea
| Telphusa calathaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Telphusa |
| Species: | T. calathaea
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| Binomial name | |
| Telphusa calathaea Meyrick, 1913
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Telphusa calathaea is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]
The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are pale brownish, finely whitish-sprinkled, with a few scattered blackish scales and with two small confluent black spots on the base of the costa, the costal edge is blackish to the antemedian patch. There are irregular sub-triangular blackish patches on the costa before and beyond the middle, the first reaching to beyond the fold, the second not reaching half across the wing. There is a raised transverse mark of a few blackish scales representing the second discal stigma and the apical area is suffused with grey, mixed with blackish scales, intersected by an obscure pale curved shade from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled towards the base.[3]
References
- ^ Telphusa at funet
- ^ Afro Moths
- ^ Ann. Transv. Mus. 3 (4) : 286 Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
