Dichomeris antisticta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929. It is known from southern India.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Dichomeris |
| Species: | D. antisticta
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| Binomial name | |
| Dichomeris antisticta (Meyrick, 1929)
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The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are light ochreous grey with the costal edge ochreous whitish from the base to beyond the middle. There is a small cloudy grey spot in the disc at one-fourth and the anterior stigmata are small, blackish, with the plical beneath the first discal, the second discal dark grey. There is an ochreous-whitish mark on the costa at two-thirds, preceded by some dark grey suffusion and with a very fine pale zigzag line from this to the tornus. There is a marginal series of black dots around the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]
The larvae feed on Terminalia tomentosa.
References edit
- ^ Ponomarenko, M. G. (October–November 1997). "Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist. 50: 1–67. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2013.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (16): 511.