Thiotricha Rhodomicta
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''Thiotricha rhodomicta'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in
Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
, India. The
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is 12–16 mm. The forewings are brownish, more or less sprinkled with dark fuscous, sometimes partially suffused with carmine pink, sometimes mixed with ochreous whitish in the disc. There are dark fuscous dots towards the base near the costa and dorsum, and near the dorsum at one-fourth. There is a small suffused dark fuscous spot on or near the costa at one-third. The stigmata are suffused, dark fuscous or blackish, sometimes nearly obsolete, the plical obliquely before the first discal. Four or five ochreous-whitish lines converge to the apical projection posteriorly, one running along its lower edge. There is also a black subapical dot preceded by a silvery dot. The hindwings are grey, lighter anteriorly.Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923)
''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 2 (4): 126.


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