Beltheca phosphoropa
| Beltheca phosphoropa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Beltheca |
| Species: | B. phosphoropa |
| Binomial name | |
| Beltheca phosphoropa (Meyrick, 1922) | |
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Beltheca phosphoropa is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil (Para) and Peru.[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-fifth 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 hairpencil from the costa near the base, and a large dense pencil of blackish hairscales from the base lying along the dorsum.[2]
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