Helcystogramma engraptum

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

Helcystogramma engraptum is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1918. It is known from Pakistan^[1] and India.

The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are brown, with the cell clouded fuscous and with suffused fuscous interneural streaks, in females two beneath the apex sprinkled blackish. The stigmata is indicated by some darker suffusion, and the lateral margins are marked by small cloudy whitish dots, with the plical rather before the first discal. There is an obscure cloudy whitish dot on the costa at three-fourths, where a faint paler angulated shade crosses the wing. There are indications of dark fuscous marginal dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are light grey.^[2]

The larvae feed on Ipomoea batatas.

References

^ Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
^ Exotic Microlep. 2 (4): 114

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[1] Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Exotic Microlep. 2 (4): 114

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