Dichomeris imbricata

Dichomeris imbricata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in southern India and China (Guangdong).[2]

Dichomeris imbricata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Dichomeris
Species:
D. imbricata
Binomial name
Dichomeris imbricata
Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is 19–20 mm (0.75–0.79 in). The forewings are brown somewhat mixed with whitish-ochreous and with a whitish-ochreous patch occupying the apical fourth of the costa. The anterior two-thirds of the costa is suffused with blackish, obliquely strigulated with pale ochreous. The stigmata is blackish, ill-defined, with the discal approximated and the plical near beyond the first discal. There is also some blackish suffusion on the dorsum towards the tornus, a blackish dot on the tornus and one on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are grey, with the veins and termen darker.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris imbricata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku (ed.). "Dichomeris". FUNET. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 22 (1): 175


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