Hypatima verticosa
Hypatima verticosa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in southern India.[2]
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The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish, irrorated with light brownish and fuscous and with a black white-circled dot near the base above the middle and a blackish white-edged triangular patch occupying more than the median third of the costa, its costal extremities cut off by a line oblique white strigulae, the apex truncate and reaching half across the wing. A black elongate mark rests on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline anteriorly, with the veins 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 verticosa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- Hypatima at funet
- J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 166
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