Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lecithoceridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Dinochares | |
Dinochares conotoma is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.
The wingspan is 14-17 mm. The forewings are orange with a small dark purplish-leaden fuscous basal-patch and two large oval bluish-leaden-metallic spots in the disc, the first towards the costa before the middle, the second towards the dorsum beyond the middle. There is a dark purplish-leaden-fuscous elongate semi-oval blotch extending along the dorsum from near the basal patch to the middle and a bronzy patch, anteriorly edged with dark fuscous suffusion, occupying the apical two-fifths of the wing except a narrow streak of ground colour along the costa almost to the apex, the anterior edge acutely indented in the middle. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous in males, posteriorly suffused with light grey, with a submedian groove containing an expansible pencil of very long whitish-yellowish hairs. The hindwings of the females are grey.