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Hypatima demonstrata

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Hypatima demonstrata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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]

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

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  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. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.