Dichomeris turgida

Dichomeris turgida is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918.[1] It is found in South Africa.[2][3]

Dichomeris turgida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Dichomeris
Species:
D. turgida
Binomial name
Dichomeris turgida
(Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
  • Trichotaphe turgida Meyrick, 1918
  • Musurga turgida

The wingspan is about 18 mm (0.71 in). The forewings are whitish ochreous with a small black mark on the base of the costa. The stigmata are small, dark fuscous, the first discal represented by a short linear dash, the plical slightly beyond this. The costa is slenderly dark fuscous from two-fifths to the apex, cut by a whitish line which runs from two-thirds of the costa to near the apex and then strongly curved to the tornus, and posteriorly by three oblique whitish strigulae. There is a fine whitish terminal line marked with several small blackish dots, the space between this and the preceding line brownish-tinged. The hindwings are grey.[4]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris turgida". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku (ed.). "Dichomeris". Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via FUNET.
  3. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Dichomeris byrsoxantha (Meyrick, 1918)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  4. Meyrick, E. (August 1918). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6 (2): 24 – via Sabinet.


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