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Dichomeris melanota

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Species of moth

Dichomeris melanota
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species: D. melanota
Binomial name
Dichomeris melanota
Walsingham, 1911

Dichomeris melanota is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1911. It is found in Mexico (Veracruz).

The wingspan is about 18 mm (0.71 in). The forewings are slightly lustrous, bluish black, with inconspicuous darker, dull black markings. There is an outwardly oblique streak, arising on the fold at one-third of the wing-length, but not quite reaching the costa before the middle. There are also some minute transverse striae along the dorsum, and a triangulate transverse streak, arising from the costa at three-fourths, pointing outward toward the rather suddenly depressed and angulate apex, then sharply bent inward making two adjacent points directed toward the upper angle of the cell, and again descending with a slight outward curve to the tornus, before which there is a minute ochreous marginal spot. The hindwings are dark brownish fuscous, with a pale ochreous line along the base of the more greyish fuscous cilia.

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Dichomeris melanota​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku (ed.). "Dichomeris". FUNET. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  3. Biologia Centrali-Americana Lep. Heterocera 4 : 94Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Dichomeris melanota


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