Hypatima demonstrata

Hypatima demonstrata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1920.[1] It is found on New Guinea, where it has been recorded from the Kei Islands.[2]

Hypatima demonstrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Hypatima
Species:
H. demonstrata
Binomial name
Hypatima demonstrata
(Meyrick, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria demonstrata Meyrick, 1920

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous speckled with whitish, somewhat sprinkled darker fuscous and with a large dark fuscous rounded-triangular blotch on the middle of the costa, reaching more than halfway across the wing. There is a slight dark fuscous strigula beneath the costa at two-thirds. The hindwings are violet blue hyaline, with the veins and termen irregularly suffused with grey and the apical third grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima demonstrata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima demonstrata (Meyrick, 1920)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (10): 303.


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