Dichomeris imbricata

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

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

The wingspan is 19–20 mm. 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]

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