Telechrysis

Telechrysis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Family: Oecophoridae (disputed)
Subfamily: Amphisbatinae (but see text)
Genus: Telechrysis
Toll, 1956
Species: T. tripuncta
Binomial name
Telechrysis tripuncta
(Haworth, 1828)
Synonyms
  • Recurvaria tripuncta Haworth, 1828

Telechrysis is a genus of gelechioid moths and only genus in the Telechrysidini tribe. The genus itself contains only one species, Telechrysis tripuncta, which is found in most of Europe, except the Iberian Peninsula, the Benelux, Ireland, Lithuania, Croatia, Austria and Greece.[1]

The wingspan is 10–14 mm.[2] Adults have three pale, evenly spaced spots on each forewing.[3] They are on wing in May and June.

The larvae are thought to feed in dead or rotting wood.[4]

Taxonomy

In the systematic layout used here, it is placed in the subfamily Amphisbatinae of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). Delimitation of Amphisbatinae versus the close relatives Depressariinae and Oecophorinae is a major problem of Gelechioidea taxonomy and systematics, and some authors separate the former two as full-blown families, and/or include the Amphisbatinae in Depressariinae (or Depressariidae), or merge them in the Oecophorinae outright.

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