Hypatima tonsa
| Hypatima tonsa | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Hypatima |
| Species: | H. tonsa |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypatima tonsa (Meyrick, 1913) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hypatima tonsa is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in India (Assam) and Vietnam.[2]
The wingspan is 14-15 mm. The forewings are light brownish, faintly purplish-tinged, sprinkled with fuscous and with a dark purplish-fuscous triangular blotch with indigo-blue reflections occupying nearly the median third of the costa, reaching more than half across the wing, edged anteriorly with whitish-ochreous suffusion. There is a small blackish dot on the fold at one-third of the wing, one towards the dorsum beyond this, one below the middle at two-thirds, and one obliquely beyond and above this. Some minute ill-defined blackish dots are found around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly.[3]
References
- ↑ "LepIndex". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
- ↑ Hypatima at funet
- ↑ J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 164