Hypatima brachyrrhiza

Hypatima brachyrrhiza
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Hypatima
Species:	H. brachyrrhiza
Binomial name
	Hypatima brachyrrhiza; (Meyrick, 1921)
Synonyms
	Chelaria brachyrrhiza Meyrick, 1921;

Hypatima brachyrrhiza is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921.^[1] It is found in Fiji.^[2]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are grey closely and suffusedly irrorated with white and with several faintly indicated oblique darker marks from the costa, as well as a short blackish line along the fold about one-fourth, and a rather longer one in the middle of the disc. There are some dark fuscous scales forming an incomplete short line towards the costa before the apex and a minute black linear dot on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are light bluish-grey.^[3]

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima brachyrrhiza". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
^ Hypatima at funet
^ Exotic Microlep. 2 (14): 431

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

[2] Hypatima at funet

[3] Exotic Microlep. 2 (14): 431

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