Helcystogramma balteatum
Helcystogramma balteatum is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is known from north-eastern India.[1]
| Helcystogramma balteatum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Helcystogramma |
| Species: | H. balteatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Helcystogramma balteatum (Meyrick, 1911) | |
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The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are dark shining purplish leaden grey with a blackish-fuscous trapezoidal blotch on the dorsum before the middle, reaching two-thirds of the way across the wing, edged with whitish ochreous. There is an oblique whitish-ochreous strigula from the costa before the middle, edged posteriorly with dark fuscous. A second discal stigma is small, transverse linear and whitish ochreous and there is a nearly straight double whitish-ochreous streak from about three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, somewhat dilated on the costa, followed by a fascia of blackish-fuscous suffusion. There is also a whitish-ochreous streak round the apex and termen to near the tornus, thickened at the apex, edged with a blackish marginal line. The hindwings are blackish fuscous.[2]
References
- Ponomarenko, M. G. (October–November 1997). "Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist. 50: 1–67. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2013.
- Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 20 (3): 732.
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