Thiotricha parthenica

Thiotricha parthenica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Thiotricha
Species:	T. parthenica
Binomial name
	Thiotricha parthenica; Meyrick, 1904

Thiotricha parthenica is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Tasmania.[1]

The wingspan is 13–14 mm (0.51–0.55 in). The forewings are rather deep ochreous-yellow with the costal edge dark fuscous towards the base and with a minute black dot beneath the costa at one-third, and the stigmata minute and black, the plical obliquely before the first discal, but all these apparently sometimes absent. The hindwings are light grey.

The larvae are case-bearing. The case is tolerably cylindrical, thick, rather curved and composed of withered fragments of leaf superposed in tiers. They feed on Grevillea punicea, boring holes into the undersurface and discolouring the uppersurface in small blotches.[2]

References

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Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 297. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.

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[2] Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 297. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.