Dichomeris sciritis

Dichomeris sciritis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Dichomeris
Species:	D. sciritis
Binomial name
	Dichomeris sciritis; (Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
	Brachyacma sciritis Meyrick, 1918; Cymotricha sciritis; Trichotaphe sciritis; Oxysactis sciritis;

Dichomeris sciritis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Chennai, India.^[1]

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous, with the base of costal edge dark fuscous and with a white costal line from the base to the middle, thence continued around the margin of a fine elongate wedge-shaped dark fuscous mark lying along the costa beyond the middle, its acute end anterior. There is a small black whitish-edged apical dot. The hindwings are grey.^[2]

References

^ Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1-82.
^ Exotic Microlep. 2 (5): 149

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[1] Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1-82.

[2] Exotic Microlep. 2 (5): 149

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