Dichomeris intensa

Dichomeris intensa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in southern India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.[2]

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

The wingspan is 11–14 mm (0.43–0.55 in). The forewings are brownish, variably sprinkled or irrorated with dark fuscous and with the costa more or less broadly and irregularly suffused with dark leaden fuscous from the base to near the apex, sometimes marked with several fine oblique pale strigulae towards the middle. There is a narrow dark leaden-fuscous terminal fascia, preceded on the costa by a small pale ochreous patch, these markings limited anteriorly by an angulated pale ochreous or brownish transverse line sprinkled with dark fuscous. The hindwings are dark grey, in males thinly scaled and violet subhyaline (almost glass like) in the disc.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris intensa​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris intensa Meyrick, 1913". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 26 August 2020 – via FUNET.
  3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 173.


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