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Dichomeris chalcophaea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Dichomeris

Dichomeris chalcophaea is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The forewings are rather dark bronzy-fuscous, obscurely irrorated grey-whitish. The stigmata is cloudy, obscure, dark fuscous, the discal approximated, the second transverse, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. There is a distinct angulated thick dark coppery-fuscous line from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, edged anteriorly by a faint line of whitish irroration. The apical edge is coppery-bronze. The hindwings are fuscous.

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Dichomeris chalcophaea Wikipedia