Dichomeris aprica

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

Dichomeris aprica is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is known from southern India[1] (Karnataka).[2]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are yellow-ochreous, tinged with ferruginous and with several short oblique blackish strigulae on the costa between one-third and three-fourth. The dorsal half is obscurely suffused with ferruginous and irrorated with fuscous. The hindwings are dark grey, but lighter and thinly scaled anteriorly.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1-82.
  3. ↑ J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 170


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