Hypatima solutrix

Hypatima solutrix is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911.[1] It is found in South Africa's Limpopo province and in Zimbabwe.[2]

Hypatima solutrix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Hypatima
Species:
H. solutrix
Binomial name
Hypatima solutrix
(Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria solutrix Meyrick, 1911

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are brownish, irrorated (sprinkled) with grey, whitish, and dark fuscous and with an obscure streak of blackish suffusion along the costa from about one-fourth to beyond the middle, and four small spots of blackish suffusion on the costa posteriorly. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima solutrix". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Hypatima solutrix (Meyrick, 1911)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (1): 69.


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