Helina gracilior Emden, 1951

(Figs 13–16)

Examined type material: Holotype male seen; in good condition, apex of right wing damaged. One male from Kenya (Mt. Elgon, Health Zone) dissected and illustrated.

Diagnosis. Male frons less than twice as wide as postpedicel; scutum dark brown; dorsocentrals 2+3; katepisternals equidistant one from each other; mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta; wing with dark clouds on crossveins r–m and dm–cu; costal spine very long.

Male terminalia. Similar to H. fuscibasis. Sternite 5 longer than wide, with two robust setae on each lobe and with scattered setae on disc (Fig. 13); cercal plate square, surstylus a little longer than cercal plate in lateral view (Figs 14–15); aedeagal complex with epiphallus longer than postgonite; distiphallus membranous at tip (Fig. 16).

Notes. The species was originally described from Kenya and is still only known from that country.