Dactylethrella siccifolii

Dactylethrella siccifolii is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1881.^[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo).^[2]

Dactylethrella siccifolii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Dactylethrella
Species:	D. siccifolii
Binomial name
Dactylethrella siccifolii (Walsingham, 1881)
Synonyms
Ypsolophus siccifolii Walsingham, 1881 Dactylethra siccifolii (Walsingham, 1881)

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are cinereous bone-colour, more or less irrorated and suffused with ochreous fawn-colour, especially on the upper and outer half of the wing and with a few scattered dark purplish scales near the base of the costal margin, and two rounded groups of dark purplish scales on the disc, one before and one beyond the middle. There are some shining whitish oblique streaks on the outer half of the costa, and a bright shining silvery metallic line along the apical margin. The hindwings are pale bone-colour.^[3]