Dichomeris chalcophaea

Dichomeris chalcophaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Dichomeris
Species:	D. chalcophaea
Binomial name
	Dichomeris chalcophaea; Meyrick, 1921

Last updated March 23, 2024

Dichomeris chalcophaea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921.^[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.^[2]

The wingspan is 10–11 mm (0.39–0.43 in). The forewings are rather dark bronzy fuscous, obscurely irrorated (sprinkled) with grey whitish. The stigmata are cloudy, obscure, dark fuscous, the discal approximated, the second transverse, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. There is a distinct angulated thick dark coppery-fuscous line from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, edged anteriorly by a faint line of whitish irroration. The apical edge is coppery bronze. The hindwings are fuscous.^[3]

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References

↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris chalcophaea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 21, 2018.
↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris chalcophaea Meyrick, 1921". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 25 August 2020– via FUNET.
↑ Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (14): 434. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris chalcophaea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 21, 2018.

[2] Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris chalcophaea Meyrick, 1921". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 25 August 2020– via FUNET.

[3] Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (14): 434. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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