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Dichomeris semnias

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Species of moth

Dichomeris semnias
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species: D. semnias
Binomial name
Dichomeris semnias
(Meyrick, 1926)
Synonyms
  • Gaesa semnias Meyrick, 1926

Dichomeris semnias is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1926. It is found in north-eastern India.

The wingspan is about 18 mm (0.71 in). The forewings are slaty fuscous suffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with darker and with the anterior half of the costa dark fuscous with about eight ochreous-whitish dots. The stigmata are minute, grey whitish, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. The hindwings are grey.

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Dichomeris semnias​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris semnias (Meyrick, 1926)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 26 August 2020 – via FUNET.
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (9): 286. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Dichomeris semnias


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