''Telphusa melanozona'' is a
moth
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of the family
Gelechiidae. It is found in
India
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(
Bengal
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).
The
wingspan
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is 9–10 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish irrorated with light grey and with the base of the costa blackish. There is a moderately broad straight black transverse fascia at one-fourth and a minute black dot in the middle of the disc, as well as two black dots transversely placed in the disc at two-thirds, surrounded with whitish-ochreous, the upper forming the apex of a triangular blackish costal spot. The hindwings are light grey.
The larvae feed on ''
Euphorbia neriifolia
''Euphorbia neriifolia'' is a species of spurge, which was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.
Description
Gallery
File:Flower Euphorbia neriifolia.jpg, Flower
File:Leaves of Euphorbia neriifolia.jpg, Leaves
File:Fruit of Euphor ...
''. They
mine
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*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
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the leaves of their host plant.
Exot. Microlep. 1 (3): 65
References
Moths described in 1913
Telphusa
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
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