''Teleiopsis baldiana'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

of the family

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described by

William Barnes William Barnes (22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886) was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a co ...

and

August Busck Augustus Busck (February 18, 1870 in Randers, DenmarkBUSCK, Augustus
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. The

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is 19–21 mm. The forewings are bluish white, overlaid with fuscous, black and brown scales and with a rather well defined outwardly oblique fasciae of black raised scales from near the base of the costa to the basal fourth of the dorsum. There is an ill-defined light fuscous spot on the middle of costa, as well as an ill-defined transverse shade of fuscous over the end of the cell, edged exteriorly by a narrow nearly unmottled white fascia. There is also a short transverse streak of black-and-brown raised scales at the end of the cell and the tip of the wing is overlaid with fuscous. The larvae feed on ''

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''. They roll the leaves of their host plant.

References

Moths described in 1920 Teleiopsis {{Litini-stub