Tricerophora commaculata

Tricerophora commaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Tricerophora
Species:	T. commaculata
Binomial name
	Tricerophora commaculata; (Meyrick, 1921)
Synonyms
	Telphusa commaculata Meyrick, 1921;

Tricerophora commaculata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.[1][2]

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are white irregularly speckled with blackish and with a very oblique wedge-shaped black blotch on the base of the costa, as well as a thick black longitudinal streak from the base of the dorsum to beneath the middle of the disc, and a black streak from above the apex of this to the termen above the middle, gradually considerably expanded above with black suffusion to reach the costa before the apex, these two comprehended in a broader irregular streak of grey suffusion, and crossed by direct transverse fasciae of grey suffusion before the middle and at three-fourths, the former including a strong black subcostal streak. The hindwings are grey, suffused with dark grey posteriorly and with some scattered raised whitish and two or three blackish scales on the veins anteriorly.[3]

References

Savela, Markku, ed. (September 2, 2018). "Tricerophora commaculata (Meyrick, 1921)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Tricerophora commaculata (Meyrick, 1921)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
Meyrick, E. (July 14, 1921). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 69 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (September 2, 2018). "Tricerophora commaculata (Meyrick, 1921)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 12, 2020.

[2] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Tricerophora commaculata (Meyrick, 1921)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 12, 2020.

[3] Meyrick, E. (July 14, 1921). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 69 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.