Brachmia dimidiella

Description

Brachmia dimidiella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from most of Europe (except Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, Croatia and Greece), east to Japan. The wingspan is 10–11 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August. Brachmia is a genus of the twirler moth family (Gelechiidae). Among these, it is mostly placed in the subfamily Dichomeridinae. Other authors have used it as type genus of a distinct subfamily Brachmiinae. However, the "Brachmiinae" are considered an ill-defined assemblage of twirler moths whose relationships are not yet sufficiently determined, and the present genus is consequently sometimes placed incertae sedis within the Gelechiidae.