Dichomeris pleurophaea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1919.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Dichomeris |
| Species: | D. pleurophaea
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| Dichomeris pleurophaea (Turner, 1919)
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The wingspan is about 18 mm (0.71 in). The forewings are pale ochreous-brown, with the costa dark-fuscous throughout, commencing as a broad line from the base, widening at one-fourth to a blotch extending half across the disc, narrowing to a point shortly before the apex. There is a minute fuscous dot on the fold in the middle, and another above the tornus, as well as a transverse ferruginous-brown line from the apex of the costal patch to the termen. The apex is suffused with ferruginous-brown. The hindwings are dark-grey.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dichomeris pleurophaea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku (ed.). "Dichomeris". FUNET. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 31 (10) : 167
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