Hypatima triannulata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911.[1] It is found in Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique and the South African provinces of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Eastern Cape.[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. triannulata
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| Hypatima triannulata (Meyrick, 1911)
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The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous somewhat mixed with pale ochreous and slightly sprinkled with grey. The costal edge is suffused with blackish irroration (sprinkles) from the base to two-thirds, with a flattened-triangular blackish spot in the middle of the costa. There is a black dot beneath the costa near the base and the stigmata are black, the discal remote, the plical obliquely before the first discal. There is also a blackish spot on the dorsum before the tornus, connected with the second discal stigma by a short outwardly oblique streak of blackish irroration. There are some groups of a few blackish scales around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima triannulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Hypatima triannulata (Meyrick, 1911)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ^ Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (1): 69.
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