Hypatima silvestris

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Hypatima silvestris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 Edward Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in Assam in India and Jiangsu in China.[2]

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irrorated (sprinkled) 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 halfway 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[edit]

  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. ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima silvestris (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 164. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.