Hypatima melanocharis

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]

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

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
  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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