Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma
| Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Paraplatyptilia |
| Species: | P. xylopsamma |
| Binomial name | |
| Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma (Meyrick, 1908)[1] | |
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Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma is a moth of the PterophoridaePterophoridae family that is found in Colorado, Utah and California.
The wingspan is about 28 millimetres (1.1 in). The head is light yellow-ochreous sprinkled with whitish. The antennae are whitish-ochreous, with a dark fuscous line above. The thorax is brownish-ochreous sprinkled with whitish and the abdomen is whitish-ochreous, faintly streaked with brownish. The forewings are brownish-ochreous, slightly sprinkled with whitish, although the dorsal half is suffused with pale whitish-ochreous from the base to the cleft. The hindwings are ferruginous-fuscous.[2]
References
- ↑ Mothphotographersgroup
- ↑ "Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America". Retrieved 30 June 2011.