Dichomeris malachias

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Dichomeris malachias
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. malachias
Binomial name
Dichomeris malachias
(Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Trichotaphe malachiasMeyrick, 1913

Dichomeris malachias is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. [1] It is found in Assam, India. [2]

The wingspan is 16–18 mm (0.63–0.71 in). The forewings are light greenish ochreous, towards the costa whitish ochreous with scattered dark fuscous scales. The costal edge is blackish towards the base and there is a dark fuscous dot in the disc at one-fourth. The stigmata is dark fuscous, the discal moderately large, whitish ringed, the plical smaller, beneath the first discal. There are also two or three small marks of dark fuscous irroration (sprinkling) on the costa posteriorly, as well as a very undefined narrow fascia of faint brownish suffusion with dark fuscous irroration from four-fifths of the costa close before the termen to the tornus and some dark fuscous terminal dots. The hindwings are grey. [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 malachias". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris malachias (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 26 August 2020– via FUNET.
  3. ↑ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 179.


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