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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Helcystogramma |
| Species: | H. heterotoma
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| Binomial name | |
| Helcystogramma heterotoma (Diakonoff, 1967)
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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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Helcystogramma at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Bulletin of the United States National Museum 257: 158
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