Hyptiastis clematias

Hyptiastis clematias
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Hyptiastis
Species: H. clematias
Binomial name
Hyptiastis clematias
Meyrick, 1911

Hyptiastis clematias is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1911. It is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is 17-19 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous with a whitish-ochreous dorsal stripe from the base to the tornus, in the middle with a broad triangular prominence reaching half across the wing, before the tornus with another triangular projection which is more or less suffused posteriorly. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, deeper-tinged and with somewhat modified scales towards the base, veins 6 and 7 and a streak along the posterior two-thirds of the costa and apical portion of the termen are suffusedly dark fuscous, in females light grey, the dorsum suffused with whitish-ochreous and dark markings indicated as in males, but indistinct.[2]

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