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Dichomeris saturata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Dichomeris

Dichomeris saturata is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1923. It is found in Brazil (Para).

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are light reddish-ochreous suffusedly mixed ferruginous and with the basal half of the costa suffused ferruginous with a blue gloss. The base of the dorsum is dark grey. The stigmata is blackish, the plical and first discal rather large, the plical rather posterior, these two connected by irregular grey suffusion, the second discal smaller. There is some blackish speckling towards the termen. The hindwings are dark grey.

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Dichomeris saturata Wikipedia