Eulamprotes helotella

Eulamprotes helotella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Eulamprotes
Species:	E. helotella
Binomial name
	Eulamprotes helotella; (Staudinger, 1859)
Synonyms
	Gelechia helotella Staudinger, 1859; Bryotropha damonella Millière, 1876; Bryotropha damonella Millière, 1875; Gelechia algeriella Baker, 1888; Xystophora striatopunctella Rebel, 1891;

Eulamprotes helotella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Corsica, Sardinia, and Crete.^[2] It is also found in North Africa.

The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The forewings are light fuscous, more or less densely irrorated (speckled) with whitish and darker fuscous and with a cloudy, obscure, dark fuscous, sub-elongate dot in the middle of the disc, and a second before three-fourths. The hindwings are grey.^[3]

References

^ Karsholt, Ole & Twan Rutten, 2005, the genus Bryotropha Heinemann in the western palaearctic (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 148: 77-207. Abstract and full article: [1]
^ Fauna Europaea
^ Description of Apodia doliodes in Ent. mon. Mag. 27 : 55 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Karsholt, Ole & Twan Rutten, 2005, the genus Bryotropha Heinemann in the western palaearctic (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 148: 77-207. Abstract and full article: [1]

[2] Fauna Europaea

[3] Description of Apodia doliodes in Ent. mon. Mag. 27 : 55 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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