Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Dichomeris | |
Dichomeris acrochlora is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1905. It is known from Sri Lanka 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.
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