Hypatima demonstrata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1920.[1] It is found on New Guinea, where it has been recorded from the Kei Islands.[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. demonstrata
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| Hypatima demonstrata (Meyrick, 1920)
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The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous speckled with whitish, somewhat sprinkled darker fuscous and with a large dark fuscous rounded-triangular blotch on the middle of the costa, reaching more than halfway across the wing. There is a slight dark fuscous strigula beneath the costa at two-thirds. The hindwings are violet blue hyaline, with the veins and termen irregularly suffused with grey and the apical third grey.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima demonstrata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima demonstrata (Meyrick, 1920)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ^ Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (10): 303.
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