Hypatima tonsa
Hypatima tonsa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in Vietnam and Assam, India.[2]
| Hypatima tonsa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Hypatima |
| Species: | H. tonsa |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypatima tonsa (Meyrick, 1913) | |
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The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are light brownish, faintly purplish tinged, sprinkled with fuscous and with a dark purplish-fuscous triangular blotch with indigo-blue reflections occupying nearly the median third of the costa, reaching more than halfway across the wing, edged anteriorly with whitish-ochreous suffusion. There is a small blackish dot on the fold at one-third of the wing, one towards the dorsum beyond this, one below the middle at two-thirds, and one obliquely beyond and above this. Some minute ill-defined blackish dots are found around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly.[3]
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima tonsa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima tonsa (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 164.
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