Palintropa hippica

Palintropa hippica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Palintropa
Species: P. hippica
Binomial name
Palintropa hippica
Meyrick, 1913

Palintropa hippica is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 13-14 mm. The forewings are fuscous irrorated with whitish and with a dark brown patch irregularly irrorated with blackish extending along the costa from one-third to near the apex, and reaching more than half across the wing, limited beneath before the middle by a large tuft of scales on the fold. A silvery-grey-whitish line crosses the wing at five-sixths, on the lower half dilated into a spot preceded and followed by light brownish-ochreous spaces and margined anteriorly by a dark fuscous tuft of scales. There is a silvery-whitish angulated transverse line immediately before the apex. The hindwings are dark grey, thinly scaled and semi-transparent in the disc anteriorly.[2]

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