Afrotelphusa
Afrotelphusa is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Afrotelphusa accensa, which is found in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are grey irregularly mixed with dark grey and with an oblong dark grey patch extending along the dorsum from near the base to the tornus and reaching three-fifths across the wing, anteriorly edged by raised scales, above by a streak of brownish suffusion, posteriorly by an angulated shade of brownish suffusion from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus. The stigmata are blackish followed by tufts of scales, the plical obliquely before the first discal, the first discal represented by a transverse mark crossing the upper edge of the dorsal patch, the second by two transversely placed dots
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Afrotelphusa
Afrotelphusa is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Afrotelphusa accensa, which is found in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are grey irregularly mixed with dark grey and with an oblong dark grey patch extending along the dorsum from near the base to the tornus and reaching three-fifths across the wing, anteriorly edged by raised scales, above by a streak of brownish suffusion, posteriorly by an angulated shade of brownish suffusion from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus. The stigmata are blackish followed by tufts of scales, the plical obliquely before the first discal, the first discal represented by a transverse mark crossing the upper edge of the dorsal patch, the second by two transversely placed dots
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Afrotelphusa is a genus of mot ...... eins somewhat darker-suffused.
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*Telphusa accensa (Meyrick, 1921)
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Afrotelphusa accensa
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Bidzilya & Mey, 2011
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Afrotelphusa is a genus of mot ...... two transversely placed dots
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Afrotelphusa
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