Hypatima pilosella

Hypatima pilosella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 family Gelechiidae. It was described by Francis 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]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima pilosella". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
Savela, Markku. "Hypatima pilosella (Walker, 1864)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 640 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[nhm-1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima pilosella". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.

[2] Savela, Markku. "Hypatima pilosella (Walker, 1864)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 6, 2018.

[3] List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 640 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.