Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Polyhymno | |
Polyhymno hostilis is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1918. It is found in Namibia, South Africa (Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal) and Zimbabwe.
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are bronzy-brown with a strong shining white median longitudinal streak from the base to near the termen, broadest beyond the middle, where it sends a line to the termen above the tornus, then narrowed to a point. A fine costal line is found almost from the base to the middle, then very obliquely to just above the apex of the median streak and there is a narrow subdorsal white streak from the base of the dorsum to the tornus. An oblique white line is found from four-fifths of the costa, becoming silvery-metallic and angulated to form a short mark on the termen beneath the apex. Above the posterior part of this is an ochreous streak running into the apical projection and there is a wedge-shaped white spot before the termen in the middle, and some irregular white marking along the termen. The hindwings are bluish-grey.