Hypatima_albogrisea

<i>Hypatima albogrisea</i>

Hypatima albogrisea

Species of moth

Hypatima albogrisea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1881.[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga).[2]

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The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish grey, with a slight pinkish tinge, irrorated with brownish fuscous scales, and with a few single widely scattered steel-blue metallic scales chiefly about the darker markings. A somewhat quadrangular fuscous spot lies scarcely above the middle of the wing, the costa above it slightly shaded. There is a costal blotch of about the same size before the apex, and a smaller spot between the two. Both of the same colour. The apical margin is also narrowly fuscous. The hindwings are cinereous-fuscous, with a narrow semi-transparent steel-blue streak beneath the costal vein, and a tuft of long cinereous-fuscous scales arising from the base of the dorsal vein.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima albogrisea​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. [2]
    Afro Moths
  3. [3]
    Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881 (2) : 264 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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