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Thiotricha characias
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Thiotricha
Species:	T. characias
Binomial name
Thiotricha characias Meyrick, 1918

Thiotricha characias is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in southern India.

The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are pale greyish ochreous, with the dorsum in males slenderly suffused with fuscous. There is a slender very oblique blackish streak from near the dorsum in the middle, reaching two-thirds of the way across the wing. The apical fourth is more or less infuscated, browner towards the termen and there is a whitish wedge-shaped mark on the tornus, and a dot on the costa opposite. A snow-white dot is found before the apex, partially edged with blackish, and a whitish dot on the termen beneath it. The hindwings are light grey, thinly scaled anteriorly and with a blackish apical dot.

References

1. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 7, 2019). "Thiotricha characias Meyrick, 1908". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18 (2): 440. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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