Hypatima attenuata

Hypatima attenuata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1920.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.[2]

Hypatima attenuata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. attenuata
Binomial name
Hypatima attenuata (Meyrick, 1920)
Synonyms
Chelaria attenuata Meyrick, 1920

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are light fuscous closely and suffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with white and with a white tuft on the costa at one-fourth, preceded by a dark fuscous mark along the costa, as well as a short dark fuscous streak along the costa in the middle, beneath which is some light brownish suffusion. The stigmata are minute, black, with the first discal opposite the posterior end of this streak, with the plical rather obliquely before it. There is a small dark fuscous spot on the costa at two-thirds and there is some brownish suffusion towards the termen, and a very fine irregular twice interrupted blackish longitudinal median line in this. The hindwings are light grey, thinly scaled, towards the apex darker grey.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima attenuata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
2. Savela, Markku, ed. (10 February 2019). "Hypatima attenuata (Meyrick, 1920)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
3. Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (10): 300.