Hypatima albogrisea

Hypatima albogrisea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. albogrisea
Binomial name
	Hypatima albogrisea; (Walsingham, 1881)
Synonyms
	Chelaria albogrisea Walsingham, 1881;

Hypatima albogrisea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1881.[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga).[2]

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish grey, with a slight pinkish tinge, irrorated with brownish fuscous scales, and with a few single widely scattered steel-blue metallic scales chiefly about the darker markings. A somewhat quadrangular fuscous spot lies scarcely above the middle of the wing, the costa above it slightly shaded. There is a costal blotch of about the same size before the apex, and a smaller spot between the two. Both of the same colour. The apical margin is also narrowly fuscous. The hindwings are cinereous-fuscous, with a narrow semi-transparent steel-blue streak beneath the costal vein, and a tuft of long cinereous-fuscous scales arising from the base of the dorsal vein.[3]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima albogrisea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
Afro Moths
Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881 (2) : 264

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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 albogrisea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.

[2] Afro Moths

[3] Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881 (2) : 264