Hypatima silvestris

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

Hypatima silvestris is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in India (Assam) and China (Jiangsu).[2]

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irrorated with whitish points and with two blackish dots towards the costa near the base and a dark fuscous triangular blotch occupying nearly the median third of the costa, reaching half across the wing, preceded on the costa by a small dark fuscous spot separated by a whitish strigula. The costa posteriorly is dark fuscous, with several fine whitish oblique strigulae and there is short black dash in the disc at four-fifths, one resting on the termen beneath the apex, and a minute one just above the tornus. The hindwings are grey, lighter and thinly scaled towards the base and with the veins darker.[3]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima silvestris". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
Hypatima at funet
J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 164

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

[2] Hypatima at funet

[3] J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 164