Hypatima agriogramma

Hypatima agriogramma is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1926.[1] It is found on Borneo.[2]

Hypatima agriogramma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Hypatima
Species:
H. agriogramma
Binomial name
Hypatima agriogramma
(Meyrick, 1926)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria agriogramma Meyrick, 1926

The wingspan is about 18 millimetres (0.71 in). The forewings are whitish ochreous, with scattered brownish scales and three irregular black lines suffused with brown, one subcostal from the base to near the middle, one along the fold throughout and one from the disc before one-third to just below the apex, with a branch along vein nine. There is a suffused dark fuscous streak along the costa from one-fourth to three-fifths, cut by oblique whitish strigulae at one-third and beyond the middle. There is some irregular brownish suffusion towards the dorsum and termen and two oblique whitish strigulae from the costa posteriorly, edged with brown and separated by a brown stria running to the apex with a blackish dot towards the apex and a black linear apical dot. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima agriogramma​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima agriogramma (Meyrick, 1926)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. The Sarawak Museum Journal. 3: 153. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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