''Hypercallia cyathopa'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide. Subfamilies Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies: * Acriinae ...

. It was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Ed ...

in 1913. It is found in

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. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is about 22 mm. The forewings are yellow, streaked with crimson-red on the veins and with a rather dark purplish-fuscous streak edged with crimson from the base of the dorsum along the costa to one-third, then bent abruptly down to the middle of the disc and again angulated upwards to the costa beyond the middle, the discal angle truncate, preceded and followed by round semitransparent white spots edged with crimson, and sending a slender streak to the dorsum at one-third, dilated on the dorsum. There is a rather dark fuscous transverse mark in the disc at one-fourth and a slender curved crimson streak mixed with fuscous running from the extremity of the costal streak to a spot of dark fuscous suffusion above the dorsum towards the tornus. The costal edge is shortly white beyond this and there is a moderate lilac-brown fascia rurming around the apical portion of the costa and termen to the tornus, its costal portion including three small spots of crimson and yellow. The hindwings are whitish, on the posterior half tinged with yellowish, and towards the upper half of the termen with pale rosy.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1913 (1): 179

References

Moths described in 1913 Hypercallia {{Hypercalliinae-stub