Dichomeris ferruginosa

Dichomeris ferruginosa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in India (Assam), China (Zhejiang), Taiwan, Indonesia (Java) and Japan.[2]

Dichomeris ferruginosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Dichomeris
Species:
D. ferruginosa
Binomial name
Dichomeris ferruginosa
Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are yellow-ochreous with the costa and dorsum suffused with ferruginous and strigulated with dark leaden-fuscous irroration. The stigmata is black, moderately large, the discal approximated, the plical beneath the first discal. There is an oblique narrow transverse fascia of ferruginous suffusion and dark leaden-fuscous irroration crossing the wing between the first discal and plical stigmata, and there is a streak of ferruginous suffusion and dark leaden-fuscous irroration along the termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and iridescent-semihyaline, the veins and termen suffused with darker.[3]

The larvae feed on Sesbania grandiflora.[4]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris ferruginosa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Dichomeris at funet
  3. J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 173
  4. Insecta Koreana 12 : 20


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