Dichomeris antisticta

Dichomeris antisticta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929. It is known from southern India.[1]

Dichomeris antisticta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. antisticta
Binomial name
Dichomeris antisticta
(Meyrick, 1929)
Synonyms
  • Cymotricha antisticta Meyrick, 1929

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are light ochreous grey with the costal edge ochreous whitish from the base to beyond the middle. There is a small cloudy grey spot in the disc at one-fourth and the anterior stigmata are small, blackish, with the plical beneath the first discal, the second discal dark grey. There is an ochreous-whitish mark on the costa at two-thirds, preceded by some dark grey suffusion and with a very fine pale zigzag line from this to the tornus. There is a marginal series of black dots around the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]

The larvae feed on Terminalia tomentosa.

References
  1. Ponomarenko, M. G. (October–November 1997). "Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist. 50: 1–67. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2013.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (16): 511.


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