Hypatima orthomochla

Hypatima orthomochla is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932.[1] It is found on Java in Indonesia.[2]

Hypatima orthomochla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Hypatima
Species:
H. orthomochla
Binomial name
Hypatima orthomochla
(Meyrick, 1932)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria orthomochla Meyrick, 1932

The wingspan is about 8 mm. The forewings are pale red brownish irrorated (sprinkled) with grey with a few black scales and with about eight small elongate blackish spots along the costa, separated by dots of whitish suffusion. There is a narrow, black, slightly inwards-oblique suffusedly interrupted antemedian fascia, as well as a fine expansible whitish hair-pencil from the base of the dorsum and some black scales at the tornus. 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 orthomochla". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima orthomochla (Meyrick, 1932)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (2-4): 199.


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