''Dactylethrella globulata'' is a

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in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. The

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is 11–12 mm. The forewings are whitish, tinged with brownish and sprinkled with dark fuscous and with three moderately large roundish fuscous spots in the disc at one-fourth, halfway and at two-thirds, sprinkled with darker, the first smaller and less marked. There is a suffused similar patch extending along the termen. The hindwings are grey.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 20 (2): 461.

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Moths described in 1910 Dactylethrella Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Chelariini-stub