Helcystogramma heterotoma

Helcystogramma heterotoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Helcystogramma
Species: H. heterotoma
Binomial name
Helcystogramma heterotoma
(Diakonoff, 1967)
Synonyms
  • Brachmia heterotoma Diakonoff, 1967

Helcystogramma heterotoma is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Diakonoff in 1967. It is known from the Philippines[1] (Luzon).[2]

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are black, partially dark grey and the dorsum with a rather broad, very pale ferruginous-white streak from the base to the tornus, slightly attenuated towards the extremities and with a small white tooth on the upper edge along the fold. There is a rather broad and straight, oblique white transverse fascia with parallel and well-defined edges. The lower third of this fascia is extended as a horizontal band posteriorly. About the apical sixth of the wing is white, containing a suffused grey-black rounded blotch, filling out the apex and connected with the ground color in the disc below the middle of the wing. The hindwings are light greyish fuscous.[3]

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