Helcystogramma hystricella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Helcystogramma
- Species
- Helcystogramma hystricella
- Scientific Name
- Helcystogramma hystricella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Helcystogramma hystricella
Helcystogramma hystricella, the lanceolate helcystogramma moth, is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Minnesota to Pennsylvania, south to Maryland and Kentucky, west to Oklahoma and Kansas.
The wingspan is 13–15 mm.
The larvae feed on grasses, including Elymus hystrix. They roll the leaves of their host plant. The species overwinters in the larval stage in a rolled leaf.
...Helcystogramma hystricella in languages:
- English
- Lanceolate Moth
- English
- Lanceolate Helcystogramma Moth
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Parent Taxon
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






























































































































































