''Locharcha'' is a genus of

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s in the family

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. It contains the species ''Locharcha emicans'', which is found in

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. The

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is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark ashy-fuscous slightly speckled purple-whitish and with a moderate pointed whitish-ochreous dorsal streak from the base to the tornus, slightly speckled blackish, the upper edge margined with blackish suffusion from the base to an obtuse postmedian prominence. There is a black streak from the disc before the middle to the apex, interrupted beyond the middle by a spot of brown suffusion, at the apex expanded into a blotch including a small light ochreous spot. There is also an oblique whitish strigula on the costa at three-fourths. The hindwings are rather dark grey.Exot. Microlep. 3 (1-2): 18
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Gelechiinae Gelechiidae genera Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Gelechiinae-stub