Hellinsia ares
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Hellinsia ares is a moth
of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Utah
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The wingspan
is 20-22.5 mm. The head is brown, but tawny-white between the antennae. The antennae have a row of variably heavy brown dots above. The thorax and abdomen are tawny, the latter with some single dorsal brown dots in the posterior margins of the segments, but otherwise immaculate. The forewings are even ochreous-tawny. There is a brown dot near the middle and cleft of the cell preceded by a heavy but not large brown spot, from which a few scales sometimes extend to embrace the extreme base of the cleft. There are a few scattered brown scales on the wing, mostly along the inner margin near the base. The fringes are greyish tawny with a dark brownish grey patch preceding the apex of the first lobe with a few pale hairs at the marginal dot, and a similar but paler and less conspicuous dark region at the apex of the second lobe. The hindwings are grey-brown, their fringes a little more tawny.
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 Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
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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 20-22.5 mm. The head is brown, but tawny-white between the antennae. The antennae have a row of variably heavy brown dots above. The thorax and abdomen are tawny, the latter with some single dorsal brown dots in the posterior margins of the segments, but otherwise immaculate. The forewings are even ochreous-tawny. There is a brown dot near the middle and cleft of the cell preceded by a heavy but not large brown spot, from which a few scales sometimes extend to embrace the extreme base of the cleft. There are a few scattered brown scales on the wing, mostly along the inner margin near the base. The fringes are greyish tawny with a dark brownish grey patch preceding the apex of the first lobe with a few pale hairs at the marginal dot, and a similar but paler and less conspicuous dark region at the apex of the second lobe. The hindwings are grey-brown, their fringes a little more tawny.