Hellinsia praealtus

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

Hellinsia praealtus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Guatemala.[1]

The wingspan is 22‑24 mm. The forewings are white, much sprinkled with dark brown scales, which form a narrow and slightly diffused line along the costa, interrupted before and beyond by a broad costal patch at three‑fourths, produced obliquely inward to the base of the fissure and then diffused outwards to the tornus and termen. This is preceded by a dark spot on the middle of the cell, with another on the dorsum and little beyond it, and a costal spot before the apex is followed by another on the lower margin of the apical lobe. The hindwings are greyish brown. Adults are on wing in February and August.[2]

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