Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Dichomeris | |
Dichomeris citharista is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in southern India.
The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are pale whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with grey or fuscous and with the costa dark fuscous towards the base. There is an indistinct dark fuscous dot on the fold beyond one-fourth and one obliquely beneath and before this. The stigmata is small, black, accompanied with some ferruginous or fuscous scales, the discal approximated, the plical beneath the first discal, the second discal placed on a slender transverse fuscous fascia, sometimes ferruginous-mixed and expanded anteriorly on the costa. The posterior area is more or less streaked longitudinally with dark fuscous. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled anteriorly and with the veins and termen darker-suffused.