Polyhymno pausimacha

Polyhymno pausimacha is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1909. It is found in Namibia and South Africa (Mpumalanga, Gauteng, the Northern Cape, the Eastern Cape).[1][2]

Polyhymno pausimacha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Polyhymno
Species:	P. pausimacha
Binomial name
Polyhymno pausimacha Meyrick, 1909

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous mixed with blackish and with a rather broad white median streak from the base, broadly interrupted about the middle, the posterior extremity attenuated, not reaching the termen. Beneath the posterior segment is a cloudy white streak on the fold to the tornus, and an irregular cloudy white streak between these mixed with fuscous in the middle and extending upwards to beyond the apex of the median streak. A slender white oblique streak is found above the apex of the median and there is a silvery-metallic acutely angulated line from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, passing round these. A brownish-ochreous streak runs from near the costa immediately beyond this to the apex and there are three white oblique wedge-shaped marks on the costa towards the apex, as well as a whitish terminal line not reaching the apex or tornus. The hindwings are grey, darker posteriorly.[3]

References

1. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 7, 2019). "Polyhymno pausimacha Meyrick, 1909". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Polyhymno pausimacha Meyrick, 1909". Afromoths. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
3. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 2 (1): 14. Archived 2014-09-05 at the Wayback Machine