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 family Gelechiidae. It was described by Alexey 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]

References

Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
Helcystogramma at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Bulletin of the United States National Museum 257: 158

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[1] Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Helcystogramma at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[3] Bulletin of the United States National Museum 257: 158