Dichomeris monococca

Dichomeris monococca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species: D. monococca
Binomial name
Dichomeris monococca
(Meyrick, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Trichotaphe monococca Meyrick, 1921

Dichomeris monococca is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921.[1] It is found in Mozambique.[2]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are rather dark purplish-grey with some scattered blackish scales between the veins and a cloudy blackish dot in the disc at one-fourth. There is a small oval whitish spot in the disc before the middle, edged anteriorly with blackish and followed by a blackish elongate blotch. The plical stigma is cloudy, blackish and nearly beneath the whitish spot. There is a cloudy whitish dot on the costa at three-fourths. The hindwings are grey.[3]

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