Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Hypatima | |
Hypatima tonsa is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in India (Assam) and Vietnam.
The wingspan is 14-15 mm. The forewings are light brownish, faintly purplish-tinged, sprinkled with fuscous and with a dark purplish-fuscous triangular blotch with indigo-blue reflections occupying nearly the median third of the costa, reaching more than half across the wing, edged anteriorly with whitish-ochreous suffusion. There is a small blackish dot on the fold at one-third of the wing, one towards the dorsum beyond this, one below the middle at two-thirds, and one obliquely beyond and above this. Some minute ill-defined blackish dots are found around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly.