Hypatima melanocharis

Hypatima melanocharis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. melanocharis
Binomial name
	Hypatima melanocharis; (Meyrick, 1934)
Synonyms
	Chelaria melanocharis Meyrick, 1934;

Hypatima melanocharis is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1934.^[1] It is found on Java in Indonesia.^[2]

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are rather dark grey irrorated (sprinkled) with white, with scattered black dots and short fine irregular dashes, a longer dash beneath the costa at one-third, and three short marks in a rather oblique series in the disc beneath the posterior end of this, some brown suffusion above them, a cloudy blotch of whitish irroration towards the costa beyond this, and four small dark brown spots on the costa from this to two-thirds. The hindwings are light grey, darker posteriorly.^[3]

References[]

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima melanocharis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima melanocharis (Meyrick, 1934)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 511.

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

[2] Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima melanocharis (Meyrick, 1934)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.

[3] Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 511.

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