Hypatima nimbigera is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1926.[1] It is found in Papua New Guinea, where it has been recorded from New Ireland.[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. nimbigera
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| Hypatima nimbigera (Meyrick, 1926)
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The wingspan is 16–19 mm. The forewings are light grey suffused with white with a blackish dot on the base of the costa, and one towards the costa near the base. There are small dark fuscous spots on the costa before and beyond one-fourth, and a semi-oval spot in the middle. There is an irregular patch of dark grey suffusion mixed with blackish extending along the dorsum from one-fourth to three-fourths, triangularly prominent in the middle and nearly reaching the median costal spot. There is a similar subterminal fascia leaving a whitish space before the tornus but slenderly connected with the preceding above this. There are two small blackish spots before the apex, and one on the costa at three-fourths. The hindwings are dark grey, anteriorly thinly scaled and semitransparent.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima nimbigera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Hypatima nimbigera (Meyrick, 1926)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (12): 283.
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