Dichomeris imbricata

Dichomeris imbricata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in southern India and Guangdong, China.[2]

Dichomeris imbricata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Dichomeris
Species:
D. imbricata
Binomial name
Dichomeris imbricata
Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is 19–20 mm (0.75–0.79 in). The forewings are brown somewhat mixed with whitish ochreous and with a whitish-ochreous patch occupying the apical fourth of the costa. The anterior two-thirds of the costa is suffused with blackish, obliquely strigulated with pale ochreous. The stigmata is blackish, ill defined, with the discal approximated and the plical near beyond the first discal. There is also some blackish suffusion on the dorsum towards the tornus, a blackish dot on the tornus and one on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are grey, with the veins and termen darker.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris imbricata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris imbricata Meyrick, 1913". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 26 August 2020 – via FUNET.
  3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 175.


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