Dichomeris acrochlora
| Dichomeris acrochlora | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Dichomeris |
| Species: | D. acrochlora |
| Binomial name | |
| Dichomeris acrochlora (Meyrick, 1905) | |
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Dichomeris acrochlora is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1905. It is known from Sri Lanka[1] and India.
The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are dark shining purplish-bronzy-fuscous with a hardly paler obtusely angulated transverse line from four-fifth of the costa to the tornus. The apical distorted portion is pale shining ochreous. The hindwings are fuscous, paler towards base and the subdorsal hairs are pale whitish-ochreous.[2]
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