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Dichomeris sciritis

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Dichomeris sciritis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. sciritis
Binomial name
Dichomeris sciritis
(Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
  • Brachyacma sciritis Meyrick, 1918
  • Cymotricha sciritis
  • Trichotaphe sciritis
  • Oxysactis sciritis

Dichomeris sciritis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Chennai, India.[1]

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous, with the base of costal edge dark fuscous and with a white costal line from the base to the middle, thence continued around the margin of a fine elongate wedge-shaped dark fuscous mark lying along the costa beyond the middle, its acute end anterior. There is a small black whitish-edged apical dot. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1-82.
  2. ^ Exotic Microlep. 2 (5): 149 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.