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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
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Moth - made from thin sticks of balsa wood - Hellinsia
Copyright © 2017 John Hartgerink

Moth - made from thin sticks of balsa wood - Hellinsia
Baton Rouge, Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
January 15, 2017
3 or 4 perched on window of Visitor Center all morning.
Window looks out over a meadow
Viewed from outside and inside.
Wingspan about 1.5 inches, although not actually measured.
Warm weather, about 70 degF.

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Contributed by John Hartgerink on 16 January, 2017 - 5:21pm
Last updated 11 August, 2018 - 6:35pm

Moved
Moved from Pterophorinae.
… Charley Eiseman, 11 August, 2018 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

Hellinsia sp.
Hellinsia sp.
… Deborah Matthews, 11 August, 2018 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
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