Dichomeris praealbescens is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922.[1] It is found in Shanghai, China.[2]
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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. praealbescens
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| Dichomeris praealbescens (Meyrick, 1922)
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The wingspan is 13–14 mm (0.51–0.55 in). The forewings are whitish, closely irregularly speckled with rather dark fuscous and with a cloudy spot of dark fuscous suffusion about the fold at one-fourth. The stigmata are represented by similar spots, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal, these rather elongate, the second discal rather transverse. There is a triangular spot of dark fuscous suffusion on the costa towards the apex, edged anteriorly by a white strigula and posteriorly by a white apical spot, and with suffused white subterminal and terminal shades from these crossing the wing. The apical and terminal edge are finely dark fuscous. The hindwings are light grey.[3]
References edit
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris praealbescens". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris praealbescens (Meyrick, 1922)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 26 August 2020 – via FUNET.
- ^ Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (16): 505.