Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma

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Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Paraplatyptilia
Species:
P. xylopsamma
Binomial name
Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma
(Meyrick, 1908) [1]
Synonyms
  • Platyptilia xylopsammaMeyrick, 1908
  • Stenoptilia schwarziDyar, 1903
  • Stenoptilia gorgoniensisGrinnell, 1908

Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma is a moth of the family Pterophoridae 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]

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References

  1. Mothphotographersgroup
  2. "Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America" . Retrieved 30 June 2011.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .