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 Gelechiidae family. 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 half 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 irroration, dark fuscous between the spots. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and pale in the disc anteriorly.^[3]

References

1. Telphusa at funet
2. Afro Moths
3. Ann. Transv. Mus. 8 (2) : 70