Helcystogramma adaequata

Helcystogramma adaequata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Helcystogramma
Species:	H. adaequata
Binomial name
Helcystogramma adaequata Meyrick, 1914

Helcystogramma adaequata is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana.^[1]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a leaden-grey median streak from base to the dorsal blotch. There is a large semi-oval blotch of ground-colour partially suffused with ferruginous and finely edged with whitish, extending on the dorsum from one-fourth to three-fifth, its upper edge rather prominent in middle and reaching two-thirds across the wing. There is a thick blue-leaden-grey streak along the costa from the base to one-third, then continued along the posterior edge of the dorsal blotch to the dorsum, where it coalesces with a narrower slightly curved transverse streak from the costa beyond the middle, the space between these in the disc occupied by two transversely placed oval spots of blackish-fuscous suffusion edged with whitish. There is also an oblique ochreous-whitish strigula from the costa at one-third, and a small spot on the costa at two-thirds, where a faint irregular line runs to the dorsum before the tornus. A blue-leaden-metallic line runs from the costa before the apex to the tornus, indented outwards and interrupted beneath the apex. There is also a black terminal line, edged with ochreous-whitish. The hindwings are dark fuscous.^[2]

References

1. Helcystogramma at funet
2. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1914 : 271