Hypatima demonstrata

Hypatima demonstrata is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1920. It is found in New Guinea, where it has been recorded from the Kei Islands.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous speckled whitish, somewhat sprinkled darker fuscous and with a large dark fuscous rounded-triangular blotch on the middle of the costa, reaching more than half 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 grey and the apical third grey.