Dichomeris ceponoma

Dichomeris ceponoma is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918.[1] It is found in southern India and Java, Indonesia.[2]

Dichomeris ceponoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Dichomeris
Species:	D. ceponoma
Binomial name
Dichomeris ceponoma Meyrick, 1918

The wingspan is about 12 mm (0.47 in). The forewings are dark grey, somewhat sprinkled with whitish and with blackish markings, irregularly edged with light ochreous-yellowish scales. There are small spots on the base of the costa and dorsum and an irregular transverse mark in the disc towards the base. There is a slightly curved transverse fascia at one-third, somewhat narrowed towards the costa and an oblique spot from the middle of the costa, as well as a V-shaped externally yellowish margined mark in the disc beneath the extremity of this. A rather irregular sinuate ochreous-yellow line runs from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, posteriorly margined by black suffusion. There are also cloudy blackish marginal dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter and thinly scaled in the disc anteriorly.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris ceponoma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
2. Savela, Markku, ed. (2 May 2019). "Dichomeris ceponoma Meyrick, 1918". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 25 August 2020 – via FUNET.
3. Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (5): 151.