Hypatima trachyspila

Hypatima trachyspila is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1933.[1] It is found in Sierra Leone.[2]

Hypatima trachyspila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Hypatima
Species:
H. trachyspila
Binomial name
Hypatima trachyspila
(Meyrick, 1933)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria trachyspila Meyrick, 1933

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous irregularly sprinkled with brownish, with a few whitish scales and an undefined elongate patch of fuscous suffusion along the median third of the costa, cut by a short oblique white line before the middle, beneath this two spots of irroration (sprinkles) formed of raised black scales obliquely placed in the disc preceded by whitish suffusion, a small spot of similar irroration beyond the extremity of the line, a similar small spot above the dorsum at one-third, as well as some indistinct fuscous mottling towards the costa posteriorly and several very small blackish terminal dots. 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 trachyspila". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Hypatima trachyspila (Meyrick, 1933)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 354.


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