Hellinsia luteolus

Hellinsia luteolus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by William Barnes and Arthur Ward Lindsey in 1921. It is found in the US state of Arizona (including the type location, the Huachuca Mountains).

Hellinsia luteolus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Hellinsia
Species:
H. luteolus
Binomial name
Hellinsia luteolus
(Barnes & Lindsey, 1921)[1]
Synonyms
  • Oidaematophorus luteolus Barnes & Lindsey, 1921

The wingspan is 20–21 mm. The head is brown (sometimes pale) but whitish between the antennae. The antennae are whitish above, darker below, sometimes with a blackish line above near the base. The thorax and abdomen are yellowish, pale brownish white or tawny. The forewings are a little paler than the thorax and abdomen and generally tawny white. The inner margin of the first lobe has a fine blackish brown dot before the apex. The cleft is preceded at some distance by a similar but larger dot. The fringes are concolorous. The hindwings and their fringes are a little darker and more grayish.[2]

References
  1. "460109.00 – 6209 – Hellinsia luteolus – (Barnes & Lindsey, 1921)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  2. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America


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