Dichomeris melanortha

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Dichomeris melanortha
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. melanortha
Binomial name
Dichomeris melanortha
Meyrick, 1929

Dichomeris melanortha is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929. [1] It is found in southern India. [2]

The wingspan is about 12 mm (0.47 in). The forewings are dark grey, somewhat sprinkled with blackish and whitish, especially on the veins posteriorly. The costal edge from the base to beyond the middle is blackish, with about eight oblique cloudy whitish strigulae and a blackish streak along the fold from near the base to the middle of the wing, and another from before the middle of the disc to the apex. The hindwings are grey, subhyaline (almost glass like) and tinged with violet blue in the disc and towards the base. [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 melanortha". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris melanortha Meyrick, 1929". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 26 August 2020– via FUNET.
  3. ↑ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (16): 510.


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