Thiotricha tethela
| Thiotricha tethela | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Thiotricha |
| Species: | T. tethela |
| Binomial name | |
| Thiotricha tethela Bradley, 1961 | |
Thiotricha tethela is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Bradley in 1961. It is found on Guadalcanal.[1]
The wingspan is 9-10 mm. The forewings are white, in some examples with a weak very light fuscous suffusion. The markings are dark mouse grey and hair brown and the anterior edge of the costal margin is fuscous at the base. There is a dark mouse grey very outwardly-oblique wedge-like marking from the costa at about four-fifths, followed by and sometimes confluent with a small triangular spot and a small inwardly-oblique dash mixed with black and very near the apex. A broad hair brown or mouse grey suffusion is found along the inner margin from near the base to about three-fifths, followed by a slender wishbone-shaped marking, the upper-most fork of this being nearly straight and reaching to a little beyond the inner end of first costal marking, the lower fork curved and terminating at the blackish pre-apical dash from the costa. The hindwings are white, with a fuscous suffusion at the margins and a few dark fuscous scales at the apex.[2]