Dicranucha ochrostoma

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Dicranucha ochrostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Dicranucha
Species:
D. ochrostoma
Binomial name
Dicranucha ochrostoma
(Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Brachmia ochrostomaMeyrick, 1913

Dicranucha ochrostoma is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. [1] It is found in South Africa. [2]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark ashy grey, with the veins and fold suffusedly streaked with black and with the plical and first discal stigmata indicated by small groups of whitish scales, the plical obliquely before the first discal. There is a larger whitish dot on the fold near the extremity and a few scattered whitish scales on the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale 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). "Dicranucha ochrostoma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (June 14, 2014). "Dicranucha ochrostoma (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  3. ↑ Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 296 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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