Helcystogramma scintillula

Helcystogramma scintillula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Helcystogramma
Species: H. scintillula
Binomial name
Helcystogramma scintillula
(Walsingham, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Strobisia scintillula Walsingham, 1911

Helcystogramma scintillula is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Mexico (Tabasco).[1]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are dark brown, with a bright steel-blue spot at the base of the costa, a slender, outwardly curved steel-blue line at one-fifth from the base, two short white costal streaks, one before and one beyond the middle, beneath which are three steel-blue spots, two on the cell and one beneath the fold, and a wide steel-blue band before the termen projecting inwards above the middle. Along the margin beyond this an ochreous band runs to the apex, separated from the whitish apical cilia by a dark line. The cilia on the lower half of the termen is dark greyish fuscous and the basal patch within the first blue line, and the central fascia indicated by the white costal streaks, are very slightly paler than the ground-colour. The hindwings are brown.[2]

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