Helcystogramma epicentra

Helcystogramma epicentra is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1911. It is known from Sri Lanka^[1] and China (Fujian, Hong Kong, Hunan, Zhejiang).^[2]

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.^[3]

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