Hypatima stasimodes

Hypatima stasimodes is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1931.^[1] It is found in Mozambique.^[2]

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are white irregularly sprinkled grey and brownish, with a small brownish spot near the base in the middle edged above with a fine black strigula. There is a large triangular fuscous blotch extending over the median third of the costa and reaching three-fourths across the wing, crossed in the middle of the disc by a blackish streak, and its apical angle cut off by an oblique white strigula preceded by dark fuscous suffusion. There is an oblong fuscous blotch on the costa towards the apex, emitting anteriorly a furcate lobe downwards, its posterior segment nearly reaching the tornus. A blackish dash crosses the lobe in the middle of the wing, and another is placed beyond it towards the costa, the costal edge of the blotch suffused dark fuscous, with two minute white strigulae. There is a fuscous streak along the upper part of the termen. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter and with hyaline streaks in the disc towards base.^[3]

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