Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma

Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Paraplatyptilia
Species:	P. xylopsamma
Binomial name
Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma (Meyrick, 1908)[1]
Synonyms
Platyptilia xylopsamma Meyrick, 1908 Stenoptilia schwarzi Dyar, 1903 Stenoptilia gorgoniensis Grinnell, 1908

Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma is a moth of the PterophoridaePterophoridae family that is found in the United States in Colorado, Utah and California.

The wingspan is about 28 millimetres (1.1 in). The head is light yellow-ocherous sprinkled with whitish. The antennae are whitish-ocherous, with a dark fuscous line above. The thorax is brownish-ocherous sprinkled with whitish and the abdomen is whitish-ocherous, faintly streaked with brownish. The forewings are brownish-ocherous, slightly sprinkled with whitish, although the dorsal half is suffused with pale whitish-ocherous from the base to the cleft. The hindwings are ferruginous-fuscous.^[2]

References

1. Mothphotographersgroup
2. "Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America". Retrieved 30 June 2011.