Dichomeris famulata

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Dichomeris famulata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. famulata
Binomial name
Dichomeris famulata
Meyrick, 1914
Synonyms
  • Dichomeris granivoraMeyrick, 1932

Dichomeris famulata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. [1] It is found in Guyana, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Trinidad. [2]

The wingspan is 13–14 mm (0.51–0.55 in). The forewings are whitish ochreous, with scattered dark fuscous scales and with the costa narrowly suffused with fuscous from the base to four-fifths, with more or less indicated darker dots and strigulae and dark fuscous dots beneath the fold at one-fourth, and above the fold beyond this. There is a blackish dot towards the costa before the middle. The stigmata is blackish, the first discal small, the plical somewhat obliquely beyond it. There is a series of blackish dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline (almost glass like) anteriorly. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris famulata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris famulata Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 26 August 2020– via FUNET.
  3. ↑ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1914: 284. PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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