''Helcystogramma microsema'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found on the

Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, V ...

, where it has been recorded from Mahé. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is about 15 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous, the stigmata black, with the plical beneath the first discal, edged anteriorly by a small whitish dot. There is an ochreous-whitish dot on the costa at three-fourths. The hindwings are grey.''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London'' (2) 14: 274

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