Hypatima orthomochla

Hypatima orthomochla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. orthomochla
Binomial name
	Hypatima orthomochla; (Meyrick, 1932)
Synonyms
	Chelaria orthomochla Meyrick, 1932;

Hypatima orthomochla is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932.^[1] It is found on Java in Indonesia.^[2]

The wingspan is about 8 mm. The forewings are pale red brownish irrorated (sprinkled) with grey with a few black scales and with about eight small elongate blackish spots along the costa, separated by dots of whitish suffusion. There is a narrow, black, slightly inwards-oblique suffusedly interrupted antemedian fascia, as well as a fine expansible whitish hair-pencil from the base of the dorsum and some black scales at the tornus. The hindwings are grey.^[3]

References[]

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima orthomochla". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima orthomochla (Meyrick, 1932)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (2-4): 199.

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

[2] Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima orthomochla (Meyrick, 1932)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.

[3] Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (2-4): 199.

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