Hypatima isoptila

Hypatima isoptila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. isoptila
Binomial name
	Hypatima isoptila; (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
	Chelaria isoptila Meyrick, 1913;

Hypatima isoptila is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

The wingspan is 16–21 mm. The forewings are fuscous, much mixed and suffused with white, with some scattered dark fuscous scales, and small tufts of raised scales. There is a blackish dash near the base above the middle and a streak of blackish irroration along the basal fourth of the dorsum, as well as a very irregularly triangular dark fuscous blotch mixed with blackish occupying the median third of the costa and reaching half across the wing. There is a rather inwardly oblique narrow streak of dark fuscous suffusion from the tornus reaching more than half across the wing, and a spot of dark fuscous suffusion on the costa beyond this. A slender dark fuscous streak runs along the termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline anteriorly, with the veins, apical area and termen suffused with dark fuscous.[3]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima isoptila". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
Hypatima at funet
J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 163

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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 isoptila". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.

[2] Hypatima at funet

[3] J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 163