Telphusa calathaea

Telphusa calathaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Telphusa
Species:	T. calathaea
Binomial name
	Telphusa calathaea; Meyrick, 1913

Last updated October 28, 2022

Telphusa calathaea is a moth of the family Gelechiidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. 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 halfway 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]

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References

↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 9, 2019). "Telphusa calathaea Meyrick, 1913". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Telphusa calathaea Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
↑ Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 286 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (February 9, 2019). "Telphusa calathaea Meyrick, 1913". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.

[2] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Telphusa calathaea Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved September 11, 2020.

[3] Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 286 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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