Telphusa retecta

Telphusa retecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Telphusa
Species:	T. retecta
Binomial name
	Telphusa retecta; Meyrick, 1921

Telphusa retecta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark grey, slightly and irregularly speckled with whitish and with small blackish spots at and near the base on the costa, as well as a small white spot on the base of the dorsum, followed by an irregular semi-oval blackish blotch extending to about the middle of the dorsum, posteriorly suffused, and reaching more than halfway across the wing. A longitudinal streak of light brownish suffusion is found above this blotch and there is a blackish elongate mark on the costa before the middle, as well as a blackish oblique streak beneath this reaching to the middle of the wing, the extremity representing the first discal stigma, the plical stigma black, beneath this, edged posteriorly with whitish. The second discal stigma is black, edged laterally with whitish and forms the apex of a dark fuscous elongate-triangular blotch from the costa above it. The posterior part of the costa and upper part of the termen are obscurely spotted with whitish sprinkles, dark fuscous between the spots. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and pale in the disc anteriorly.[3]

References

Savela, Markku, ed. (February 9, 2019). "Telphusa retecta Meyrick, 1921". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Telphusa retecta Meyrick, 1921". Afromoths. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
Meyrick, E. (July 14, 1921). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 70 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (February 9, 2019). "Telphusa retecta Meyrick, 1921". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.

[2] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Telphusa retecta Meyrick, 1921". Afromoths. Retrieved September 11, 2020.

[3] Meyrick, E. (July 14, 1921). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 70 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.