Dichomeris retracta is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922.[1] It is found in Brazil (Para).[2]

Dichomeris retracta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. retracta
Binomial name
Dichomeris retracta
(Meyrick, 1922)
Synonyms
  • Trichotaphe retracta Meyrick, 1922

The wingspan is 13–14 mm (0.51–0.55 in). The forewings are rather dark grey, more or less suffusedly irrorated with whitish-ochreous with a blackish-fuscous flattened-triangular spot above the fold towards the base, and a rather oblique rhomboidal blotch in the disc before the middle united by a suffused streak along the fold. There are two faint darker dots transversely placed on the end of the cell, as well as a dark terminal fascia formed by the absence of pale irroration, limited by an obscure pale line from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, obtusely angulated near the costa. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris retracta​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  2. ^ Savela, Markku (ed.). "Dichomeris". FUNET. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  3. ^ Royal Entomological Society of London (1836). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. Smithsonian Libraries. London, The Society.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.