Hypatima tephroptila

Hypatima tephroptila is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931.[1] It is found in southern India.[2]

Hypatima tephroptila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Hypatima
Species:
H. tephroptila
Binomial name
Hypatima tephroptila
(Meyrick, 1931)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria tephroptila Meyrick, 1931

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are whitish irrorated (sprinkled) with light fuscous and with a short fine black line from the base beneath the costa. A dark fuscous triangular patch extends on the costa from one-fifth to five-sixths, its apex almost reaching the dorsum in the middle, with two large discal tufts within its anterior edge, two others beyond these, and two at three-fourths, of which the lower falls outside the patch, these tufts tipped with leaden grey. The hindwings are light grey, thinly scaled and purplish-subhyaline in the disc and with the veins grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima tephroptila". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima tephroptila (Meyrick, 1931)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 70.


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