Polyhymno Tetragrapha
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Polyhymno Tetragrapha
''Polyhymno tetragrapha'' is a species of moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...). The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous mixed with blackish and with a broad white median streak from the base, posteriorly attenuated to a point, not reaching the termen. There is some whitish suffusion towards the dorsum posteriorly and there is a fine white oblique streak from beneath the middle of the costa and a rather broad one from the submedian fold opposite meeting at an acute angle just beyond the apex of the median streak, the angle suffused with light brownish. There is an acutely angulated silvery transverse line beyond t ...
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Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Edward Meyrick came from a Welsh clerical family and was born in Ramsbury on the Kennet to a namesake father. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He actively pursued his hobby during his schooling, and one colleague stated in 1872 that Meyrick "has not left a lamp, a paling, or a tree unexamined in which a moth could possibly, at any stage of its existence, lie hid." Meyrick began publishing notes on microlepidopterans in 1875, but when in December, 1877 he gained a post at The King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales, there were greater opportunities for indulging his interest. He stayed in Australia for ten years (from 1877 until the end of 1886) working at Syd ...
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