Helcystogramma octophora

Helcystogramma octophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Helcystogramma
Species: H. octophora
Binomial name
Helcystogramma octophora
(Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
  • Brachmia octophora Meyrick, 1918
  • Zalithia octophora

Helcystogramma octophora is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1918. It is found in South Africa.[1]

The wingspan is 11-12 mm. The forewings are shining leaden-grey with an irregular outwards-oblique orange fascia from the base of the dorsum, not reaching the costa. There is a deep bronzy blackish-edged transverse blotch from the dorsum somewhat before the middle, broadest on the dorsum, reaching three-fourths across the wing, the apex rounded and margined by a crescentic orange streak. There is also an 8-shaped orange patch filled up with fuscous, entirely crossing the wing beyond the middle from the costa to the dorsum, edged with blackish. There is also a rather curved orange line from four-fifths of the costa to just before the tornus, strongly indented in the middle, edged anteriorly with irregular black scales and posteriorly with blackish suffusion. There is also a black basal line, which is light grey beneath tornus. The hindwings are grey.[2]

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