Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Depressariidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Hypercallia | |
Hypercallia heliodepta is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932. It is found in Mexico.
The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are orange yellow with a slight greenish tinge, more orange towards the costa and with a suffused fuscous costal streak from the base to beyond one-third. The costa is narrowly dark fuscous on the median fifth, the costal edge whitish for a short distance on each side of this. There is an undefined narrow fasciae of fuscous suffusion from the costa at one-third to the dorsum at two-thirds, and from the middle of the costa to the dorsum at one-third, crossing in the middle of the disc. The discal stigmata are blackish. There is a fuscous transverse line, partially broken into small marks and angulated above the middle to the dorsum at three-fourths is found from the end of the dark costal median space. There is also a moderately broad fuscous terminal fascia, expanded and darkened on the costa. The hindwings are orange with a suffused fuscous apical patch narrowed to the middle of the termen.