Dichomeris acrochlora

Dichomeris acrochlora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Dichomeris
Species:	D. acrochlora
Binomial name
	Dichomeris acrochlora; (Meyrick, 1905)
Synonyms
	Hypelictis acrochlora Meyrick, 1905;

Dichomeris acrochlora is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. 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]

References

^ Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
^ J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 16 (4): 600

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[1] Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine

[2] J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 16 (4): 600

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