Palintropa hippica
| Palintropa hippica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Palintropa |
| Species: | P. hippica
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| Binomial name | |
| Palintropa hippica Meyrick, 1913
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Palintropa hippica is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]
The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are fuscous irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish and with a dark brown patch irregularly irrorated with blackish extending along the costa from one-third to near the apex, and reaching more than halfway across the wing, limited beneath before the middle by a large tuft of scales on the fold. A silvery-grey-whitish line crosses the wing at five-sixths, on the lower half dilated into a spot preceded and followed by light brownish-ochreous spaces and margined anteriorly by a dark fuscous tuft of scales. There is a silvery-whitish angulated transverse line immediately before the apex. The hindwings are dark grey, thinly scaled and semi-transparent in the disc anteriorly.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (July 1, 2014). "Palintropa hippica Meyrick, 1913". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 160.
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