Hypatima anguinea

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Hypatima anguinea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Hypatima
Species:
H. anguinea
Binomial name
Hypatima anguinea
(Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria anguineaMeyrick, 1913

Hypatima anguinea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. [1] It is found in Assam in India [2] and in Thailand. [3]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are light brownish irrorated (sprinkled) with white, and irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous. There is a short black dash beneath the costa near the base and a narrow dark fuscous patch extending along the costa from one-fifth to two-thirds, cut by two oblique white strigulae. There are some indications of irregularly scattered small undefined dark fuscous marks and there are two or three black dashes towards the apex. The hindwings are pale grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly. [4]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima anguinea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima anguinea (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. Species Diversity. 4: 322.
  4. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 161. PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .