Gelechiidae
59a0789 –
1877 Xenolechia basistrigella
(Zeller, 1873)
|
|
|
| Photographs are the copyrighted property of each photographer listed. Contact individual photographers for permission to use for any purpose. |
Large Map & Chart
Report Errors
About Maps
|
| Taxonomic: Notes |
Xenolechia basistrigella (Zeller, 1873): The true identity of this species is unknown and may be misplaced in the genus Xenolechia. |
| Synonymy: |
basistrigella (Zeller, 1873) (Gelechia) - MONA 1983: 1877; TL: Texas; holotype (MCZ:Ent:2987) is housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard.
Note: n. comb. (Hodges in Hodges et al. 1983). |
| Description: |
Apparently similar to species in Pseudotelphusa, particularly P. basifasciella (Zeller, 1873) to which it was compared in the original description.
"Head white, palpi white, terminal joint blackish-bianulate; anterior wings greyish-white, striga oblique subangulate black, with two costal spots and one dorsal blackening, small stria of the middle disc oblique and two dots of transverse veins migrating. ♂" (Zeller 1873) [Google translation from Latin]
"Its difference from Basifasciella is given in this one.
Carapace and head white-gray. Antennae blackish and gray ringed, white-gray at the tip; root segment blackish, whitish at the tip; palps longer than the ridge shield, curved; the second joint compressed, cylindrical, blackish outwards with two band-like black spots; the terminal segment more than half as long as the second segment, with broad black indentations in front of the middle and narrow in front of the apex. — Legs yellowish white; the four front ones blackish on the outside, mottled with whitish; the hind tibiae on the back with long, not very abundant blond hair, dark gray on the outside, with a whitish band-like spot each at the root, middle and end; the thorns blackish with white tips; the tarsi outwards blackish with whitish ends. (Abdomen missing.)
Forewings 2-1/2 ''' long, moderately narrow, hardly widened backwards, white, but appearing gray-white due to the fine, profuse, blackish pollination and purer white only in a few places. The shoulder has a blackish spot, and on at the root of the fold is a distinct black dot. Not far from the base is a rather strong, somewhat dentate, oblique outward transverse line, thickened above the fold, bounded outwards by pure ground color. Center is a nebulous, blackish costal spot, and below it a short, somewhat oblique, black line. Behind the center lies a quadrangular, nebulous, blackish costal spot, communicating with the inner-angle nebula by the black colon of the transverse vein. A light one posterior transverse line is absent, but after a clearing the crotch is dusted with black up to the wing tip are black dots. The wreaths are very finely dusted with blackish on the larger half of the root, and this pollination is limited outwards by a fairly distinct line.
Hindwings as wide as forewings, with much elongated tip,light gray; the light fringes with a fine, yellowish basal line.
Underside of forewings gray, with blurred edges in costal fringesyellowish spots and with yellowish roots of the posterior fringes. On the hindwings the middle cell seems to be closed by a transverse vein." - (Zeller 1873) [Google translation from German] |
| Similar : Species |
- 59a0779 Pseudotelphusa basifasciella
- Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
|
|
| References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.) |
- Species Page at iNaturalist
- Zeller, P.C., 1873. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, besonders der Microlepidopteren. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 23: 270; pl. 4, fig. 23.
|
P. C. Zeller
|
