Dichomeris cymotrocha
| Dichomeris cymotrocha | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Dichomeris |
| Species: | D. cymotrocha |
| Binomial name | |
| Dichomeris cymotrocha (Meyrick, 1913) | |
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Dichomeris cymotrocha is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in South Africa.[2]
The wingspan is 12-13 mm. The forewings are pale yellow-ochreous, with silvery iridescence. The basal fourth of the costa has small black marks and there is a dark fuscous streak along the costa from one-fourth to three-fourths, marked with one or two pale strigulae before the middle, and triangularly expanded beyond the middle. There is a broad dark fuscous streak along the dorsum from the base to the tornus, the upper edge forming two rounded undulations which reach half across the wing, the crest of the first suffused with blackish. There are also some scattered fuscous scales and slight suffusion in the disc. The second discal stigma is small, black and there is a rather thick dark fuscous streak along the termen from the apex to near the tornus, edged anteriorly with some blackish scales. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly.[3]