Dichomeris semnias

Dichomeris semnias
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Dichomeris
Species:	D. semnias
Binomial name
	Dichomeris semnias; (Meyrick, 1926)
Synonyms
	Gaesa semnias Meyrick, 1926;

Dichomeris semnias is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1926.[1] It is found in north-eastern India.[2]

The wingspan is about 18 mm (0.71 in). The forewings are slaty-fuscous suffusedly irrorated darker and with the anterior half of the costa dark fuscous with about eight ochreous-whitish dots. The stigmata are minute, grey-whitish, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris semnias". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
Savela, Markku (ed.). "Dichomeris". FUNET. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (9): 286

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris semnias". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.

[2] Savela, Markku (ed.). "Dichomeris". FUNET. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

[3] Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (9): 286