Helcystogramma philomusum

Helcystogramma philomusum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Helcystogramma
Species:	H. philomusum
Binomial name
	Helcystogramma philomusum; (Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
	Brachmia philomusa Meyrick, 1918; Onebala philomusa Meyrick, 1918;

Helcystogramma philomusum is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1918.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka and north-eastern India.[2]

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochrcous, the cell suffused with light fuscous and the plical stigma forming an ochreous spot irrorated with black, preceded and followed by some black irroration on the fold. There is a streak of black irroration from before the middle of the disc to beneath the apex, interrupted on end of cell by a roundish whitish-ochreous blotch enclosing a fuseous-ochreous spot, and three fine interneural lines of black irroration between the cell and termen beneath this. There are also a few scattered black scales in a line from before the middle of the costa to the upper angle of the cell and the apex and termen are suffused light fuscous. The hindwings are pale grey.[3]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Onebala philomusa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
Helcystogramma at funet
Exotic Microlep. 2 (4): 114

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[nhm-1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Onebala philomusa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.

[2] Helcystogramma at funet

[3] Exotic Microlep. 2 (4): 114