Dichomeris turgida

Dichomeris turgida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species: D. turgida
Binomial name
Dichomeris turgida
(Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
  • Trichotaphe turgida Meyrick, 1918
  • Musurga turgida

Dichomeris turgida is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1918.[1] It is found in South Africa.[2][3]

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous with a small black mark on the base of the costa. The stigmata is small, dark fuscous, the first discal represented by a short linear dash, the plical slightly beyond this. The costa is slenderly dark fuscous from two-fifths to the apex, cut by a whitish line which runs from two-thirds of the costa to near the apex and then strongly curved to the tornus, and posteriorly by three oblique whitish strigulae. There is a fine whitish terminal line marked with several small blackish dots, the space between this and the preceding line brownish-tinged. The hindwings are grey.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris turgida". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Dichomeris at funet
  3. ↑ Afro Moths
  4. ↑ Ann. Transv. Mus. 6 (2) : 24


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