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]