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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Oidaematophorini » Hellinsia » Groundsel Plume Moth - Hodges#6210 (Hellinsia balanotes)
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Huge pterophorid - Hellinsia balanotes
Copyright © 2015 Aaron Hunt

Huge pterophorid - Hellinsia balanotes
Block Island, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
August 18, 2015
Size: ~37-39mm
Which Pterophorids around here can get so big? Nearly 4cm wingspan is by far the largest I've ever seen. Properly mounted and spread, the wingspan is surely over 4cm; the moth posed with the wings not quite parallel. Is there any option other than a very far north Hellinsia balanotes? The pattern seems to match and MPG has a record in southern New Jersey.
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Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 19 August, 2015 - 9:54am
Last updated 16 January, 2016 - 10:06am

Moved
Moved from Pterophorini.
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Moved
Moved from Pterophorinae.
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