Dichomeris acrochlora is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1905. It is known from Sri Lanka[1] and India.

Dichomeris acrochlora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dichomeris
Species:
D. acrochlora
Binomial name
Dichomeris acrochlora
(Meyrick, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Hypelictis acrochlora Meyrick, 1905

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are dark shining purplish bronzy fuscous with a hardly paler obtusely angulated transverse line from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus. The apical distorted portion is pale shining with ochreous. The hindwings are fuscous, paler towards base and the subdorsal hairs are pale whitish ochreous.[2]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 16 (4): 600.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.