Hypatima improba

Hypatima improba is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913.^[1] It is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga).^[2]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are light brownish, suffusedly mixed with grey and the base narrowly dark grey sprinkled with black, dilated towards the costa. There is a triangular patch of blackish suffusion extending on the costa from one-fourth to the middle and reaching two-thirds across the wing. Two superimposed incomplete rings of black scales are found in the disc at three-fourths, the upper very indistinct and there is also a series of small indistinct spots of blackish irroration around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey.^[3]

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