Hypatima baliodes is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1920.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Hypatima |
| Species: | H. baliodes
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| Binomial name | |
| Hypatima baliodes (Lower, 1920)
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The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are ashy-grey whitish, more or less mixed throughout with small fuscous blotches. There are about nine small fuscous spots on the costa throughout, the first basal, becoming obliquely fascia like to the base of the dorsum and the third very distinct, continued obliquely inwards to the fold, more or less broken beneath the costa, broadest on the lower two-thirds. There are two or three short blackish dashes between this and the middle of the termen and one or two similar dashes on the fold beneath. A fine row of fuscous dots is found near and parallel to the termen. The hindwings are greyish, becoming fuscous tinged posteriorly.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima baliodes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku (10 February 2019). "Hypatima baliodes (Lower, 1920)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 44: 66.
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