Telphusa sedulitella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Telphusa
- Species
- Telphusa sedulitella
- Scientific Name
- Telphusa sedulitella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Telphusa sedulitella
Telphusa sedulitella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, British Columbia, California, Oregon and Washington. In the south, the range extends to Baja California.
The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are dark brown, mottled with lighter brown, black and white. The basal third is unmottled, rather darker than the rest of the wing and limited by a narrow indistinct blackish oblique streak across the wing. A series of five tufts of raised scales runs parallel with the dorsal edge. Beyond the last of these tufts, which contains some white scales, is a thin oblique pure white line from the tornus towards the apex. The apical part are rather freely dusted with white. The hindwings are light bluish fuscous, darker towards the edges.
The larvae have been reported feeding on Quercus (including Quercus agrifolia), Salix and Corylus species.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Telphusa amphichroma
- Telphusa calathaea
- Telphusa cistiflorella
- Telphusa distictella
- Telphusa iosticta
- Telphusa iriditis
- Telphusa longifasciella
- Telphusa microsperma
- Telphusa nephomicta
- Telphusa objecta
- Telphusa perspicua
- Telphusa phaulosema
- Telphusa quercicola
- Telphusa retecta
- Telphusa sarcochroma
- Telphusa sedulitella
- Telphusa smaragdopis
- Telphusa syndelta
- Telphusa xyloptera


































