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

The wingspan is about 18 mm. 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 is minute, grey-whitish, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

  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. Dichomeris at funet
  3. Exot. Microlep. 3 (9): 286


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