Dichomeris jugata

Dichomeris jugata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species: D. jugata
Binomial name
Dichomeris jugata
Walsingham, 1911

Dichomeris jugata is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1911.[1] It is found in Mexico (Tabasco), Guatemala and Panama.[2]

The wingspan is 13–15 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous, with an irregular upright dull ochreous patch on the middle of the dorsum, reaching to a little above the radius, narrowly outlined with dark fuscous accompanied by a few whitish scales. Beyond this is a small dark fuscous spot at the end of the cell, narrowly bounded above by a few whitish scales, obscurely extended toward the dorsum. There is a small triangular whitish spot on the costa before the apical depression, with an outward line of thinly scattered scales extending from it to the dorsum, as well as a series of minute whitish spots preceding the fuscous cilia. The hindwings are brownish fuscous.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris jugata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Dichomeris at funet
  3. Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 97


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