Dichomeris chalcophaea
| Dichomeris chalcophaea | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Dichomeris |
| Species: | D. chalcophaea |
| Binomial name | |
| Dichomeris chalcophaea Meyrick, 1921 | |
Dichomeris chalcophaea is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[2]
The wingspan is 10-11 mm. The forewings are rather dark bronzy-fuscous, obscurely irrorated grey-whitish. The stigmata is cloudy, obscure, dark fuscous, the discal approximated, the second transverse, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. There is a distinct angulated thick dark coppery-fuscous line from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, edged anteriorly by a faint line of whitish irroration. The apical edge is coppery-bronze. The hindwings are fuscous.[3]
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