Dichomeris sciritis
Dichomeris sciritis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Chennai, India.[1]
| Dichomeris sciritis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Dichomeris |
| Species: | D. sciritis |
| Binomial name | |
| Dichomeris sciritis (Meyrick, 1918) | |
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The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous, with the base of costal edge dark fuscous and with a white costal line from the base to the middle, thence continued around the margin of a fine elongate wedge-shaped dark fuscous mark lying along the costa beyond the middle, its acute end anterior. There is a small black whitish-edged apical dot. The hindwings are grey.[2]
References
- Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1-82.
- Exotic Microlep. 2 (5): 149
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