Thiotricha characias
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Thiotricha
Species:
T. characias
Binomial name
Thiotricha characias
Meyrick, 1918

Thiotricha characias is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are pale greyish ochreous, with the dorsum in males slenderly suffused with fuscous. There is a slender very oblique blackish streak from near the dorsum in the middle, reaching two-thirds of the way across the wing. The apical fourth is more or less infuscated, browner towards the termen and there is a whitish wedge-shaped mark on the tornus, and a dot on the costa opposite. A snow-white dot is found before the apex, partially edged with blackish, and a whitish dot on the termen beneath it. The hindwings are light grey, thinly scaled anteriorly and with a blackish apical dot.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 7, 2019). "Thiotricha characias Meyrick, 1908". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18 (2): 440. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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