Polyhymno palinorsa

Polyhymno palinorsa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Polyhymno
Species:	P. palinorsa
Binomial name
Polyhymno palinorsa Meyrick, 1909

Polyhymno palinorsa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by English entomologist Edward Meyrick in 1909. It is found in Namibia and South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng). ^{[1] [2]}

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a moderate white median longitudinal streak from the base to the termen, becoming linear posteriorly. There is a fine white line immediately beneath the costa from near the base to the middle, then running obliquely into the median streak near the termen and there is a white sub-dorsal line from near the base almost to the tornus. A white line is found along the submedian fold posteriorly almost rising out of the median streak. There is also a white somewhat upwards-oblique streak lying between the posterior half of this and the median streak and an oblique white line from the costa about two-thirds to the apex of the median streak, the extremity greyish. A pale ochreous-yellowish streak runs from above the posterior portion of this to the apex. The hindwings are grey. ^[3]

References

1. "Polyhymno Chambers, 1874" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afro Moths
3. Meyrick, E. (1909). "Descriptions of Tansvaal Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 2 (1): 1–28. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_939 .This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .