Hypatima albogrisea

Hypatima albogrisea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Hypatima
Species: H. albogrisea
Binomial name
Hypatima albogrisea
(Walsingham, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria albogrisea Walsingham, 1881

Hypatima albogrisea is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1881.[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga).[2]

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish grey, with a slight pinkish tinge, irrorated with brownish fuscous scales, and with a few single widely scattered steel-blue metallic scales chiefly about the darker markings. A somewhat quadrangular fuscous spot lies scarcely above the middle of the wing, the costa above it slightly shaded. There is a costal blotch of about the same size before the apex, and a smaller spot between the two. Both of the same colour. The apical margin is also narrowly fuscous. The hindwings are cinereous-fuscous, with a narrow semi-transparent steel-blue streak beneath the costal vein, and a tuft of long cinereous-fuscous scales arising from the base of the dorsal vein.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "LepIndex". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  2. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881 (2) : 264
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