Dichomeris cachrydias

Dichomeris cachrydias is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914.[1] It is found in Guyana and Brazil.[2]

Dichomeris cachrydias
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D. cachrydias
Binomial name
Dichomeris cachrydias
Meyrick, 1914

The wingspan is 11–12 mm (0.43–0.47 in). The forewings are dark fuscous, each more or less surrounded with fuscous suffusion coalescing with a broad streak of fuscous suffusion extending above the fold to the tornus. There is an undefined patch of fuscous suffusion towards the costa about three-fourths, and a streak along the termen. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris cachrydias". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris cachrydias Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 25 August 2020 via FUNET.
  3. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1914: 284.


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