Dichomeris malachias

Dichomeris malachias
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Dichomeris
Species:	D. malachias
Binomial name
	Dichomeris malachias; (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
	Trichotaphe malachias Meyrick, 1913;

Dichomeris malachias is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in India (Assam).[2]

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are light greenish-ochreous, towards the costa whitish-ochreous with scattered dark fuscous scales. The costa edge is blackish towards the base and there is a dark fuscous dot in the disc at one-fourth. The stigmata is dark fuscous, the discal moderately large, whitish-ringed, the plical smaller, beneath the first discal. There are also two or three small marks of dark fuscous irroration on the costa posteriorly, as well as a very undefined narrow fascia of faint brownish suffusion with dark fuscous irroration from four-fifths of the costa close before the termen to the tornus and some dark fuscous terminal dots. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris malachias". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
Dichomeris at funet
J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 179

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris malachias". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.

[2] Dichomeris at funet

[3] J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 179