Onebala zulu | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Onebala |
Species: | O. zulu
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Binomial name | |
Onebala zulu (
Walsingham, 1881)
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Onebala zulu is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1881. It is found in Namibia, South Africa ( KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng), Gambia and Zimbabwe. [1] The Global Lepidoptera Names Index has this name as a synonym of Onebala lamprostoma. [2]
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are brownish fuscous, with a white fascia scarcely beyond the middle pointing obliquely outwards from the costa, and sometimes with an excrescence on its inner edge about the middle of the wing. A white triangular costal spot is found before the apex and the apical margin is marked by a slender whitish line, followed by some blackish scales at the base of the cilia. A pale streak runs along the dorsal margin, its upper half whitish, its lower half ferruginous. The hindwings are pale fuscous. [3]