Species Pubitelphusa latifasciella - Hodges#1857

1857

Pubitelphusa latifasciella (Chambers, 1875)

Gelechia latifasciella Chambers, 1875

Telphusa latifasciella Chambers, 1875

Adult: FW dark brown with a broad white fascia just before the middle of the wing, widest on the dorsal margin, and margined in front by two small raised tufts of white scales, one of which is above, and another beneath the fold. Behind the fascia is a transverse row of dark brown raised scales, behind which the wing is dark brown to the cilia, where it becomes gray from the large intermixture of white scales, and there is a small irregular patch of dark brown scales at the apex. Nearly opposite the beginning of the cilia are two raised tufts of dark brown raised scales, and just behind them is an indistinct narrow curved gray fascia. (1)

4 variations of the same species

Oaks (Moths of North Carolina)

Larva in webbing; leaf shelter and feeding signs; larva; pupa; the darker color form

Forbes, T.M. 1923. The Lepidopteras of New York and neighboring states, primitive forms Microlepidoptera, Pyraloids, Bombyces. Cornell University, 292. (2)

Lee, S. & R.L. Brown, 2013. Pubitelphusa (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae: Litini) a new genus for two species assigned to Telphusa and Concubina. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 115(1): 70-74. (3)

Lee, S. & R L. Brown, 2008. Revision of Holarctic Teleiodini (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 1818: 1–55 (4)