Helcystogramma pantheropa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in South Africa.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Helcystogramma |
| Species: | H. pantheropa
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| Binomial name | |
| Helcystogramma pantheropa (Meyrick, 1913)
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The wingspan is 12–13 mm. The forewings are dark ashy fuscous, slightly whitish sprinkled with a slight pale ochreous dash beneath the costa near the base and a pale yellow-ochreous transverse blotch representing the plical and first discal stigmata, reaching the dorsum, more or less brownish suffused except on the margins. There is also a blackish or dark brown spot representing the second discal, sometimes edged with pale yellow ochreous, as well as a triangular suffused pale yellow-ochreous spot on the costa at three-fourths, where a very fine indistinct angulated line of pale ochreous scales runs to the tornus. The hindwings are dark grey.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Onebala pantheropa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Helcystogramma pantheropa (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^ Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 296 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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