Hypatima isotricha

Hypatima isotricha is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1921.[1] It is found in Indonesia (Java).[2]

Hypatima isotricha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. isotricha
Binomial name
Hypatima isotricha (Meyrick, 1921)
Synonyms
Chelaria isotricha Meyrick, 1921

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish sprinkled irregularly with grey, brown, and dark fuscous and with two small dark fuscous spots on the costa before and beyond one-fourth, costa between and beyond these white. There is a dark fuscous spot towards the base in the middle and an irregular suffused dark brown fasciate bar from the dorsum at one-fourth, reaching half across wing. There is also an irregular dark brown and blackish median fascia rather inwards-oblique from the costa, followed on the costa by an oblique white strigula. The posterior half of the costa is suffused with dark fuscous, with five very oblique white wedge-shaped marks and there is a suffused dark brown spot on the dorsum beyond the fascia, as well as an irregular dark brown blotch on the tornus, marked in the middle with a black dash and a spot of dark fuscous suffusion containing an oblique black dash towards the costa near the apex. A streak of dark fuscous suffusion is found along the upper part of the termen, edged above by a black dash near the apex. The hindwings are light grey, thinly scaled and violet-iridescent in the disc, with the veins and terminal edge darker grey.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima isotricha". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
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3. Zool. Meded. Leyden 6 : 164