Dichomeris cymatodes

Dichomeris cymatodes is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1916.[1] It is found in the Indian state of Assam, Hong Kong, Guizhou and Hunan in China and in Taiwan.[2]

Dichomeris cymatodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. cymatodes
Binomial name
Dichomeris cymatodes
(Meyrick, 1916)
Synonyms
  • Trichotaphe cymatodes Meyrick, 1916

The wingspan is 13-13.5 mm.[3] The forewings are pale brownish ochreous. The first discal stigma is moderate, dark brown, conspicuous, the plical hardly indicated, beneath the first discal, the second discal only indicated by a faint brownish line running from its position to the dorsum before the tornus. There is a dark brown elongate mark on the costa beyond the middle, as well as a marginal series of small dark fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings of the males are light grey, paler anteriorly, while they are rather dark grey in females.[4]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris cymatodes​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku (May 2, 2019). "Dichomeris cymatodes (Meyrick, 1916)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  3. Li, H. H.; Zhen, H.; Kendrick, R. C. & Sterling, M. J. (March 2010). "Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Taxonomic study on the genus Dichomeris Hübner, 1818, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)". SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38 (149): 76.
  4. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 1 (19): 584.


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