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Telphusa smaragdopis

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Telphusa smaragdopis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Telphusa
Species:
T. smaragdopis
Binomial name
Telphusa smaragdopis
Meyrick, 1926

Telphusa smaragdopis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Costa Rica.[1]

The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous with a metallic-green spot resting on the base of the dorsum and an oblique white fascia from the costa at one-fourth to the dorsum, its lower two-thirds occupied, except on the anterior edge, by a metallic-green blotch, and preceded by a triangular blackish dorsal blotch of rough scales. Black spots represent the stigmata, with some tufts of scales, or these are merged in a discal patch of black suffusion, beneath this a grey-whitish dorsal streak from the fascia to near the tornus, marked with a metallic-green subdorsal spot beneath the middle of the wing, and another towards the tornus with some metallic-green discal irroration above it. There is a short outwards-oblique black streak from the tornus, beneath its apex some metallic-green suffusion. The posterior part of the costa and termen are dotted with ochreous-whitish irroration. The hindwings are grey, becoming subhyaline on the basal half, with the veins dark grey.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Telphusa at funet
  2. ^ Exot. Microlep. 3 (9): 275Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.