Hypatima demonstrata

Hypatima demonstrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. demonstrata
Binomial name
	Hypatima demonstrata; (Meyrick, 1920)
Synonyms
	Chelaria demonstrataMeyrick, 1920;

Last updated June 11, 2022

Hypatima demonstrata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1920.^[1] It is found on New Guinea, where it has been recorded from the Kei Islands.^[2]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous speckled with whitish, somewhat sprinkled darker fuscous and with a large dark fuscous rounded-triangular blotch on the middle of the costa, reaching more than halfway across the wing. There is a slight dark fuscous strigula beneath the costa at two-thirds. The hindwings are violet blue hyaline, with the veins and termen irregularly suffused with grey and the apical third grey.^[3]

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References

↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima demonstrata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima demonstrata (Meyrick, 1920)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
↑ Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (10): 303. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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[nhm-1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima demonstrata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 25, 2018.

[2] Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima demonstrata (Meyrick, 1920)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.

[3] Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (10): 303. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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