Telphusa calathaea is a moth of the family Gelechiidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]
| 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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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]
References edit
- ^ 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.
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