Dichomeris ferrata

Dichomeris ferrata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in Assam, India.[2]

Dichomeris ferrata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. ferrata
Binomial name
Dichomeris ferrata
Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is 15–17 mm (0.59–0.67 in). The forewings are yellow ochreous, with scattered dark fuscous scales and dark shining leaden-grey markings irrorated (sprinkled) with blackish. There is a thick streak along the costa from the base to the middle, the posterior portion dilated into a triangular blotch reaching nearly halfway across the wing. There is also a small elongate-triangular patch on the costa at about two-thirds and an inwardly oblique wedge-shaped spot on the dorsum before the tornus, reaching halfway across the wing. The stigmata is minute, dark fuscous, with the discal approximated and the plical rather before the first discal. There is also a narrow streak along the termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled anteriorly.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris ferrata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris ferrata Meyrick, 1913". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 26 August 2020 – via FUNET.
  3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 174.


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