Hellinsia australis

Hellinsia australis
Hellinsia australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Hellinsia
Species: H. australis
Binomial name
Hellinsia australis
(Grinnel, 1908)[1]
Synonyms
  • Oidaematophorus australis
  • Pterophorus subochraceus australis Grinnel, 1908

Hellinsia australis is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in California and Utah.

The wingspan is 24-30 mm. The head is white, faintly darkened above and in front. The antennae and palpi are whitish, the latter not longer than the diameter of the eye, slender and oblique. The legs are whitish although front and middle tibiae have dark grey-brown stripes. The thorax and abdomen are yellowish white. The forewings are creamy-whitish along the inner margin, usually darkened in the costal region with a shade of pale ochreous. The fringes are concolorous. The hindwings and their fringes are whitish, faintly tinged with grey.[2]

Taxonomy

Hellinsia australis was described as a subspecies of Hellinsia subochraceus. It is either treated as a synonym of subochraceus or as a valid species.

References

  1. ^ mothphotographersgroup
  2. ^ Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America
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