Biology:Telphusa longifasciella

Short description: Species of moth

Telphusa longifasciella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Telphusa
Species:	T. longifasciella
Binomial name
Telphusa longifasciella (Clemens, 1863)
Synonyms
Gelechia longifasciella Clemens, 1863 Telphusa curvistrigella Chambers, 1872 Gelechia obliquifasciella Chambers, 1880 Gelechia lutraula Meyrick, 1923

Telphusa longifasciella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana , Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts , Minnesota, Mississippi, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee , Texas , Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are dark purple-fuscous with some white scales at the base and an oblique ochreous-white fascia from one-fourth of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, margined by black suffusion anteriorly, posteriorly continued as a broad irregular whitish streak partially mixed light grey along the dorsum to the middle of the termen, above this a band of black suffusion mixed iridescent crimson-bronzy extending from the fascia to the apex. The hindwings are pale grey.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q14467425 entry