Dichomeris ligyra

Dichomeris ligyra is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in South Africa (Gauteng).[2]

Dichomeris ligyra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Dichomeris
Species:
D. ligyra
Binomial name
Dichomeris ligyra
(Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Trichotaphe ligyra Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are bronzy-fuscous with the costal edge dark fuscous. There is a more or less developed oblique dark fuscous streak from the costa near the base, reaching half across the wing and there is an irregular blackish-fuscous fascia beyond one-third, edged with pale yellowish, the anterior edge straight, the posterior convex, broadest in the middle, where it is centrally suffused with ground colour, hardly reaching the costa. There is an oblique blackish-fuscous fascia from the middle of the costa, edged with pale yellowish, centrally suffused with ground colour in the disc, reaching two-thirds across the wing, its apex obliquely truncate. There is also a slightly incurved pale yellowish streak from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, edged posteriorly by a blackish-fuscous streak. Some suffused dark fuscous dots are found around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled in the cell, the veins and margins suffused with dark fuscous.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris ligyra". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Ann. Transv. Mus. 3 (4) : 301 Archived March 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine


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