Telecrates tesselata is a moth in the family of Xyloryctidae. It was described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1900. It is found in Australia,[1] where it has been recorded from Queensland.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Telecrates |
| Species: | T. tesselata
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| Binomial name | |
| Telecrates tesselata T. P. Lucas, 1900
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The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings have a large pear-shaped blotch of white from the costa at the base widening to the inner margin and a second cream-white blotch from one-eighth to one-fourth the costa, obliquely outward to the middle of the wing. There is a third blotch from before the middle to half the costa as a band across the wing, widening out beyond the middle, and filling the inner margin from half to three-fourths the inner margin, the edge rounded and finely dentate. A fourth blotch is found to three-fourths the costa, reaching half across the wing, the posterior border twice dentate. There is also a hindmarginal narrow band drawn to a line to the anal angle. The hindwings are ochreous yellow diffused with fuscous along hindmargin chiefly over the apex.[2]
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku (August 28, 2014). "Telecrates tesselata Lucas, 1900". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
- ^ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 15: 159.
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