Dichomeris chalcophaea

Dichomeris chalcophaea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1921.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[2]

Dichomeris chalcophaea
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D. chalcophaea
Binomial name
Dichomeris chalcophaea
Meyrick, 1921

The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The forewings are rather dark bronzy-fuscous, obscurely irrorated grey-whitish. The stigmata are cloudy, obscure, dark fuscous, the discal approximated, the second transverse, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. There is a distinct angulated thick dark coppery-fuscous line from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, edged anteriorly by a faint line of whitish irroration. The apical edge is coppery-bronze. The hindwings are fuscous.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris chalcophaea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Dichomeris at funet
  3. Exotic Microlep. 2 (14): 434


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