Beltheca Picolella
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''Beltheca picolella'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by
August Busck Augustus Busck (February 18, 1870 – March 7, 1944) was a Danish-American entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomology. He is best known for his work with microlepidoptera, of which he described over ...
in 1914. It is found in
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,
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,
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and
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. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is 9–10 mm. The forewings are blackish brown with a thin outwardly oblique white streaklet just beyond the middle of the costa and with two triangular white dashes just before the apex. There are a few scattered white scales at the end of the cell and on the fold. The hindwings are blackish fuscous with a bluish cast.''Proceedings of the United States National Museum'' 47 (2043): 5
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Moths described in 1914 Anacampsinae {{Anacampsinae-stub