''Hypatima verticosa'' is a

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

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. The

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is about 14 mm. The forewings are ochreous whitish, irrorated (sprinkled) with light brownish and fuscous and with a black white-circled dot near the base above the middle and a blackish white-edged triangular patch occupying more than the median third of the costa, its costal extremities cut off by a line oblique white strigulae, the apex truncate and reaching halfway across the wing. A black elongate mark rests on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and sub

hyaline A hyaline substance is one with a glassy appearance. The word is derived from el, ὑάλινος, translit=hyálinos, lit=transparent, and el, ὕαλος, translit=hýalos, lit=crystal, glass, label=none. Histopathology Hyaline cartilage is ...

(almost glass like) anteriorly, with the veins and termen suffused with dark fuscous.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 22 (1): 166.

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