Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Dichomeris | |
Similar Dichomeris, Gelechiidae, Diatraea saccharalis, Fall armyworm | ||
Dichomeris famulata is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Trinidad.
The wingspan is 13-14 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous, with scattered dark fuscous scales and with the costa narrowly suffused with fuscous from the base to four-fifths, with more or less indicated darker dots and strigulae and dark fuscous dots beneath the fold at one-fourth, and above the fold beyond this. There is a blackish dot towards the costa before the middle. The stigmata is blackish, the first discal small, the plical somewhat obliquely beyond it. There is a series of blackish dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline anteriorly.