''Hypatima caryodora'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

, India. The

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is 15–16 mm. The forewings are pale fulvous irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous and with the costa, fold, and dorsum irrorated with whitish towards the base. There are two dark fuscous dots beneath the costa near the base and a triangular dark fuscous blotch occupying the median third of the costa, reaching halfway across wing, partially edged with whitish suffusion. four violet-whitish oblique strigulae are found on the costa posteriorly and there is a pale violet inwardly oblique mark from the tornus, as well as an outwardly oblique mark from the termen below the middle, and two small marks in the disc above these. A black dash rests on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are whitish ochreous, with the veins, apex, and termen suffused with fuscous.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 22 (1): 164.

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Hypatima Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Moths described in 1913 {{Hypatima-stub