Hypatima pilosella

Hypatima pilosella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Hypatima
Species: H. pilosella
Binomial name
Hypatima pilosella
(Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia pilosella Walker, 1864

Hypatima pilosella is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Walker in 1864.[1] It is found on Borneo.[2]

Adults are brown, the forewings slightly rounded at the tips, speckled with cinereous, slightly tinged with purple. The exterior part has some black longitudinal streaks, and with whitish oblique outwardly converging streaks along the costa and along the interior border. The exterior border is extremely oblique. The hindwings are cupreous-brown.[3]

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