Hypercallia chionopis

Hypercallia chionopis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Hypercallia
Species:	H. chionopis
Binomial name
	Hypercallia chionopis; Meyrick, 1916

Hypercallia chionopis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1916. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are pale yellow, coarsely and irregularly reticulated with crimson and the costa with about six short oblique streaks of dark fuscous suffusion. The discal stigmata are small, round and white, surrounded with crimson and there is a slender fascia of dark fuscous suffusion from the middle of the costa behind the first discal stigma to the dorsum before the middle, where it is expanded. There is a curved streak of dark fuscous suffusion edged with crimson running near the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are rather dark grey, with a faint crimson tinge.[2]

References

"Hypercallia Stephens, 1829" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (18): 553 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] "Hypercallia Stephens, 1829" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (18): 553 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.