Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Dichomeris | |
Dichomeris ceponoma is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1918. It is found in southern India and Indonesia (Java).
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are dark grey, somewhat sprinkled whitish and with blackish markings, irregularly edged with light ochreous-yellowish scales. There are small spots on the base of the costa and dorsum and an irregular transverse mark in the disc towards the base. There is a slightly curved transverse fascia at one-third, somewhat narrowed towards the costa and an oblique spot from the middle of the costa, as well as a V-shaped externally yellowish margined mark in the disc beneath the extremity of this. A rather irregular sinuate ochreous-yellow line runs from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, posteriorly margined by black suffusion. There are also cloudy blackish marginal dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter and thinly scaled in the disc anteriorly.