Hellinsia agraphodactylus
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Hellinsia agraphodactylus is a moth
of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in the Dominican Republic
. Records from North America
are probably a misidentification.
The wingspan
is about 25 mm. The head is whitish in front, touched with brownish ochreous towards the thorax and in front. The antennae are whitish, but browner beneath. The thorax is yellowish white. The forewings are remarkably narrow, dirty white, with a faint yellowish tinge and streaked longitudinally with faint slender lines of brownish grey. There are two slender brownish-grey lines on the dorsal half of the wing, the upper one, coming from the base, passing below the cleft, where it throws off a branch beneath and running along the upper edge of the second lobe to its apex. The lower also comes from the base, and attains the dorsal margin below the base of the cleft. The costa is pale and the cilia is tinged with grey. The hindwings and fringes are pale cinereous. The abdomen and legs are slightly yellowish white. The underside is uniformly pale cinereous, except the costa and the fringes of the anterior lobe within the fissure which are whitish.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
. Records from North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
are probably a misidentification.
The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is about 25 mm. The head is whitish in front, touched with brownish ochreous towards the thorax and in front. The antennae are whitish, but browner beneath. The thorax is yellowish white. The forewings are remarkably narrow, dirty white, with a faint yellowish tinge and streaked longitudinally with faint slender lines of brownish grey. There are two slender brownish-grey lines on the dorsal half of the wing, the upper one, coming from the base, passing below the cleft, where it throws off a branch beneath and running along the upper edge of the second lobe to its apex. The lower also comes from the base, and attains the dorsal margin below the base of the cleft. The costa is pale and the cilia is tinged with grey. The hindwings and fringes are pale cinereous. The abdomen and legs are slightly yellowish white. The underside is uniformly pale cinereous, except the costa and the fringes of the anterior lobe within the fissure which are whitish.