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Pseudotelphusa confixa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Pseudotelphusa
Species:	P. confixa
Binomial name
Pseudotelphusa confixa (Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
Telphusa confixa Meyrick, 1918

Pseudotelphusa confixa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are dark grey suffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with white, with some black scales and with elongate blackish spots on the costa near the base, before the middle, and at two-thirds. There is a black streak from beneath the first of these along the fold to near the extremity. The discal stigmata are black connected by a black dash, the second followed by a disconnected black dash running nearly to the apex. There are cloudy black marginal dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled towards the base.

References

1. Savela, Markku (February 9, 2019). "Pseudotelphusa confixa (Meyrick, 1918)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Pseudotelphusa confixa (Meyrick, 1918)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
3. Meyrick, E. (August 1918). "South African Micro-Lepidoptera Supplement". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6 (2): 51 – via Sabinet. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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