''Dichomeris metrodes'' is a
moth
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in the family
Gelechiidae. It was described by
Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in southern
India
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,
Sri Lanka
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and
South Africa
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.
The
wingspan
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is . The forewings are whitish ochreous, partially suffused with pale yellow ochreous tinged with grey and with a black mark on the base of the costa, and several black dots between this and three-fifths. There is a spot of blackish irroration (sprinkles) towards the dorsum at one-fourth. The stigmata are black, with the discal approximated, the plical obliquely before the first discal. A grey spot is found towards the costa before the middle, one beneath the first discal stigma, and some suffusion along the median portion of the dorsum, sometimes confluent. There is a patch of dark grey suffusion on the costa at three-fourths, and one on the dorsum beneath the second discal stigma. There is also a streak of dark grey suffusion along the termen. The hindwings are whitish grey, thinly scaled anteriorly.
''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 22 (1): 172.
References
Moths described in 1913
metrodes
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