Species of moth
| Dichomeris turgida | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Dichomeris |
| Species: | D. turgida |
| Binomial name | |
| Dichomeris turgida (Meyrick, 1918) | |
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Dichomeris turgida is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is about 18 mm (0.71 in). The forewings are whitish ochreous with a small black mark on the base of the costa. The stigmata are small, dark fuscous, the first discal represented by a short linear dash, the plical slightly beyond this. The costa is slenderly dark fuscous from two-fifths to the apex, cut by a whitish line which runs from two-thirds of the costa to near the apex and then strongly curved to the tornus, and posteriorly by three oblique whitish strigulae. There is a fine whitish terminal line marked with several small blackish dots, the space between this and the preceding line brownish-tinged. The hindwings are grey.
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris turgida". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- Savela, Markku (ed.). "Dichomeris". Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via FUNET.
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Dichomeris byrsoxantha (Meyrick, 1918)". Afromoths. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Meyrick, E. (August 1918). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6 (2): 24 – via Sabinet.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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| Dichomeris turgida | |
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