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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. 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.

References

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:
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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