Helcystogramma phryganitis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Helcystogramma
- Species
- Helcystogramma phryganitis
- Scientific Name
- Helcystogramma phryganitis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Helcystogramma phryganitis
Helcystogramma phryganitis is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in Sri Lanka.
The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are ochreous whitish irregularly mixed with fuscous, suffusedly streaked with brown between the veins, these streaks in the disc and towards the base are marked with lines of black scales and there is a blackish dot towards the costa before the middle. The stigmata is black, with the discal connected by a black streak which is extended to the apex, thickest posteriorly, with the plical represented by an elongate mark. There is also a patch of blackish irroration (sprinkles) about the fold beyond the middle. The hindwings are pale grey.
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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


















































