Hypatima silvestris

Hypatima silvestris is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in Assam in India and Jiangsu in China.[2]

Hypatima silvestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. silvestris
Binomial name
Hypatima silvestris (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
Chelaria silvestris Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish points and with two blackish dots towards the costa near the base and a dark fuscous triangular blotch occupying nearly the median third of the costa, reaching halfway across the wing, preceded on the costa by a small dark fuscous spot separated by a whitish strigula. The costa posteriorly is dark fuscous, with several fine whitish oblique strigulae and there is short black dash in the disc at four-fifths, one resting on the termen beneath the apex, and a minute one just above the tornus. The hindwings are grey, lighter and thinly scaled towards the base and with the veins darker.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima silvestris". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
2. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima silvestris (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 164.