Hypatima albogrisea
Species of moth
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Hypatima albogrisea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1881.[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga).[2]
| Hypatima albogrisea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Hypatima |
| Species: | H. albogrisea |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypatima albogrisea (Walsingham, 1881) | |
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The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish grey, with a slight pinkish tinge, irrorated with brownish fuscous scales, and with a few single widely scattered steel-blue metallic scales chiefly about the darker markings. A somewhat quadrangular fuscous spot lies scarcely above the middle of the wing, the costa above it slightly shaded. There is a costal blotch of about the same size before the apex, and a smaller spot between the two. Both of the same colour. The apical margin is also narrowly fuscous. The hindwings are cinereous-fuscous, with a narrow semi-transparent steel-blue streak beneath the costal vein, and a tuft of long cinereous-fuscous scales arising from the base of the dorsal vein.[3]
