Dichomeris metrodes

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

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

The wingspan is 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in). The forewings are whitish-ochreous, partially suffused with pale yellow-ochreous tinged with grey and with a black mark on the base of the costa, and several black dots between this and three-fifth. There is a spot of blackish irroration towards the dorsum at one-fourth. The stigmata are black, with the discal approximated, the plical obliquely before the first discal. A grey spot is found towards the costa before the middle, one beneath the first discal stigma, and some suffusion along the median portion of the dorsum, sometimes confluent. There is a patch of dark grey suffusion on the costa at three-fourths, and one on the dorsum beneath the second discal stigma. There is also a streak of dark grey suffusion along the termen. The hindwings are whitish-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 metrodes". 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): 172