Beltheca phosphoropa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Peru and Pará, Brazil.[1]
| Beltheca phosphoropa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Beltheca |
| Species: | B. phosphoropa
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| Binomial name | |
| Beltheca phosphoropa (Meyrick, 1922)
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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-fifths 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 hair-pencil from the costa near the base, and a large dense pencil of blackish hairscales from the base lying along the dorsum.[2]
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 2, 2015). "Beltheca phosphoropa (Meyrick, 1922)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
- ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1922: 66.
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