Hellinsia phloeochroa

Hellinsia phloeochroa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Hellinsia
Species: H. phloeochroa
Binomial name
Hellinsia phloeochroa
(Walsingham, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Pterophorus phloeochroa Walsingham, 1915

Hellinsia phloeochroa is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Mexico,[1] Guatemala and Panama.

The wingspan is 23–24 mm. The antennae are pale brownish. The head and thorax are bark-brown, the latter speckled with pale cinereous. The forewings are bark-brown, more or less speckled with pale cinereous. The hindwings and cilia are a little paler than the forewings and rather less reddish brown.[2] Adults are on wing in February, July and August, at an altitude of 500 to 2,000 meters.[3]

References

  1. ↑ LepIndex
  2. ↑ Species description
  3. ↑ Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part II. Zool. Med. Leiden 85 (2011)


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