- Hellinsia auster
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Hellinsia auster Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Pterophoridae Genus: Hellinsia Species: H. auster Binomial name Hellinsia auster
(Barnes & Lindsey, 1921)[1]Synonyms - Oidaematophorus auster Barnes & Lindsey, 1921
Hellinsia auster is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Arizona (including the type location, Mohave County).
The wingspan is 20-27 mm. The head is blackish-brown, white between antennae, which are dark with a white line above, sometimes broken into dots. The thorax is whitish, although the scales are lightly tipped with grey-brown, more heavily in a band which crosses the thorax. The abdomen is grey brown with a few white scales. Above it is marked with two white stripes which contain a pair of diverging black streaks on each segment. In the posterior half of the abdomen, the bases of each pair of streaks are connected by a broad dorsal dash in the posterior margin of the preceding segment. There are also some blackish lateral dashes and two pale ventral stripes. The forewings are clothed with mixed white and brownish grey scales and more or less sprinkled with black. The hindwings and their fringes are brownish grey.[2]
Adults have been recorded in May, August and September.
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