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Dichomeris semnias

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Dichomeris

Dichomeris semnias is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1926. It is found in north-eastern India.

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are slaty-fuscous suffusedly irrorated darker and with the anterior half of the costa dark fuscous with about eight ochreous-whitish dots. The stigmata is minute, grey-whitish, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. The hindwings are grey.

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Dichomeris semnias Wikipedia