Biology:Beltheca phosphoropa

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Short description: Species of moth

Beltheca phosphoropa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Beltheca
Species:
B. phosphoropa
Binomial name
Beltheca phosphoropa
(Meyrick, 1922)
Synonyms
  • Anterethista phosphoropa Meyrick, 1922

Beltheca phosphoropa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Peru and Pará, Brazil.[1]

The wingspan is 7–9 mm. The forewings are glossy dark grey, on the posterior half dark fuscous and with an oblique iridescent violet-metallic strigula from the costa at three-fifths and similar bright iridescent violet-metallic scattered scales in the disc posteriorly, as well as a dot on the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are dark fuscous, in males with a slender expansible dark grey hair-pencil from the costa near the base, and a large dense pencil of blackish hairscales from the base lying along the dorsum.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13437270 entry