Hellinsia ares

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

Hellinsia ares is a moth of the Pterophoridae family that is endemic to Utah.

The wingspan is 20–22.5 millimetres (0.79–0.89 in). 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.[2]

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