Hypatima tonsa

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

Hypatima tonsa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.^[1] It is found in India (Assam) and Vietnam.^[2]

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are light brownish, faintly purplish-tinged, sprinkled with fuscous and with a dark purplish-fuscous triangular blotch with indigo-blue reflections occupying nearly the median third of the costa, reaching more than half across the wing, edged anteriorly with whitish-ochreous suffusion. There is a small blackish dot on the fold at one-third of the wing, one towards the dorsum beyond this, one below the middle at two-thirds, and one obliquely beyond and above this. Some minute ill-defined blackish dots are found around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly.^[3]

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima tonsa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
^ Hypatima at funet
^ J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 164

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

[2] Hypatima at funet

[3] J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 164

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