Thiotricha tethela

Thiotricha tethela is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by John David Bradley in 1961. It is found on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.[1]

Thiotricha tethela
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Thiotricha
Species:	T. tethela
Binomial name
Thiotricha tethela Bradley, 1961

The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are white, in some examples with a weak very light fuscous suffusion. The markings are dark mouse grey and hair brown and the anterior edge of the costal margin is fuscous at the base. There is a dark mouse grey very outwardly-oblique wedge-like marking from the costa at about four-fifths, followed by and sometimes confluent with a small triangular spot and a small inwardly-oblique dash mixed with black and very near the apex. A broad hair brown or mouse grey suffusion is found along the inner margin from near the base to about three-fifths, followed by a slender wishbone-shaped marking, the upper-most fork of this being nearly straight and reaching to a little beyond the inner end of first costal marking, the lower fork curved and terminating at the blackish pre-apical dash from the costa. The hindwings are white, with a fuscous suffusion at the margins and a few dark fuscous scales at the apex.[2]

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Thiotricha Meyrick, 1886". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
2. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 10 (4): 131