''Helcystogramma infibulatum'' 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 1916. It is known from

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. The

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is about 10 mm. The forewings are dark brown with a thick light ochreous-brown streak along the dorsum from the base to three-fourths, the upper edge shortly prominent before the middle of the wing, edged with white from the base to this, the ground colour suffused with dark fuscous towards it. There is a broad grey postmedian band included between two rather oblique white lines, edged with dark fuscous anteriorly, first strongly suffused with white on the upper half posteriorly, second running to the tornus, enlarged into a white triangular spot on the costa, within this band is an elongate-oval dark fuscous finely white-edged blotch in the disc. There is also a white streak along the lower part of the termen, including two black linear dots, sometimes extended around the apex. The hindwings are light grey.Meyrick, Edward (1912–1916)
''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 1 (19): 577.

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Moths described in 1916 infibulatum Moths of Asia {{Helcystogramma-stub