''Thiotricha cuneiformis'' is a

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of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in

Kodagu district Kodagu (also known by its former name Coorg) is an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State, at which point it was merged into an enlarged Mysore State. It occupies ...

in southern India. The

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is 9–11 mm. The forewings are shining white with the costal edge black from the base to a slight mark before the middle. There is an elongate dark fuscous spot on the dorsum before the middle and an oblique wedge-shaped black mark on the costa at about three-fourths, closely followed by a black strigula, from the apex of these a fine black line runs to the tornus, acutely indented on the fold and there is a black apical dot with a dark fuscous dot adjacent beneath. The hindwings are grey, paler in the disc anteriorly.Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923)
''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 2 (4): 124.

References

Moths described in 1918 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Thiotricha {{Thiotrichinae-stub