Telphusa calathaea

Telphusa calathaea is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]

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

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
  1. Telphusa at funet
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Ann. Transv. Mus. 3 (4) : 286 Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine


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