Helcystogramma epicentra: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Helcystogramma
- Species
- Helcystogramma epicentra
- Scientific Name
- Helcystogramma epicentra
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Helcystogramma epicentra
Helcystogramma epicentra is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is known from Sri Lanka and China (Fujian, Hong Kong, Hunan, Zhejiang).
The wingspan is 7–10 mm. The forewings are blackish fuscous with a fine white line immediately beneath the costal edge from the base almost to the middle and an irregular yellow-ochreous patch on the basal portion of the dorsum, sending a very oblique streak to the extremity of this line, receiving a yellow-ochreous line from the base above the middle, and continued to the upper extremity of a strongly inwards-oblique very elongate-oval yellow-ochreous ring in the disc beyond the middle, this latter portion edged beneath by a white streak. There are two oblique slightly curved yellow-ochreous streaks from the dorsum before the middle to the lower margin of this white streak, united at the tips by a bar, second followed by more or less white suffusion. There is also a yellow-ochreous streak from a white mark on costa at three-fourths to the dorsum before the tornus, obtusely angulated in the disc, separated on the upper half from the preceding markings by a white streak, and on the lower portion by more or less white suffusion, and followed by a slightly curved leaden-metallic streak running from three short whitish strigulae on the costa to the tornus. The terminal space beyond this is yellow ochreous, cut by three black bars, of which the median is thickest and the upper linear. The hindwings are grey or dark grey.
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Sibling Taxa
- Helcystogramma albilepidotum
- Helcystogramma albinervis
- Helcystogramma angustum
- Helcystogramma arotraeum
- Helcystogramma arulensis
- Helcystogramma aruritis
- Helcystogramma badia
- Helcystogramma bicuneum
- Helcystogramma brevinodium
- Helcystogramma casca
- Helcystogramma cerinura
- Helcystogramma chalyburga
- Helcystogramma chambersella
- Helcystogramma claripunctella
- Helcystogramma compositaepictum
- Helcystogramma conturbata
- Helcystogramma convolvuli
- Helcystogramma cornuta
- Helcystogramma cricopa
- Helcystogramma daedalea
- Helcystogramma ectopon
- Helcystogramma epicentra
- Helcystogramma fernaldella
- Helcystogramma fiscinata
- Helcystogramma flavescens
- Helcystogramma flavifuscum
- Helcystogramma flavilineolella
- Helcystogramma flavistictum
- Helcystogramma furvimaculare
- Helcystogramma fuscomarginatum
- Helcystogramma graphicodes
- Helcystogramma hassenzanensis
- Helcystogramma hibisci
- Helcystogramma hystricella
- Helcystogramma imagibicuneum
- Helcystogramma imagitrijunctum
- Helcystogramma ineruditum
- Helcystogramma klimeschi
- Helcystogramma lamprostoma
- Helcystogramma lineolella
- Helcystogramma luminosa
- Helcystogramma lutatella
- Helcystogramma malagasy
- Helcystogramma melanocarpa
- Helcystogramma melantherella
- Helcystogramma melissia
- Helcystogramma microsema
- Helcystogramma neurograpta
- Helcystogramma octophora
- Helcystogramma pantheropa
- Helcystogramma perceptella
- Helcystogramma perelegans
- Helcystogramma philomusum
- Helcystogramma phryganitis
- Helcystogramma plutelliformis
- Helcystogramma rectangulum
- Helcystogramma ribeella
- Helcystogramma rufescens
- Helcystogramma rusticella
- Helcystogramma simplex
- Helcystogramma stellatella
- Helcystogramma triannulella
- Helcystogramma trijunctum
- Helcystogramma xerastis