Hypercallia gnorisma
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Hypercallia |
| Species: | H. gnorisma
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| Hypercallia gnorisma (Walsingham, 1912)
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Hypercallia gnorisma is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Mexico, Guatemala and Panama.[1]
The wingspan is 20–21 mm. The forewings are yellowish, much suffused with fawn ochreous and reddish orange. A minute black dot on the cell, at one-third of the wing length, in a spot of the yellow ground colour, is followed by an oblique black spot at the end of the cell, an oblique dark fuscous dorsal shade, arising at one-fourth from the base, crosses the fold, and passes between the two black spots, blending with the fawn shading towards the costa, where a narrow dark fuscous shade occupies the middle of the margin between two equally narrow, elongate, white marginal spots, a third minute white spot occurring before the apex. The termen is somewhat shaded with fawn brownish, extending to one-half the length of the cilia, which along the middle of the termen are pale yellowish on their outer half. The hindwings are rich rosy grey, paler towards the base.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hypercallia Stephens, 1829" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 133
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