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Digital Guide to Moth Identification

North American Lepidoptera Genitalia Library
Pterophoridae
630081.16178.1Hellinsia hoguei (Gielis, 1996) – Hogue's Plume Moth
  • Hellinsia hoguei (Gielis, 1996) is now recognized within the North American fauna north of Mexico, based on Arizona specimens in USNM collected by Ronald W. Hodges and provisionally identified by Reed A. Watkins in 2007.
  • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
  • Gielis, C., 2011. Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part II: Pterophorinae (Oidaematophorini, Pterophorini) (Lepidoptera). Zoologische Mededelingen, 85: 589-824.
  • Species Page at BugGuide.Net
  • U.S. National Entomological Collection (USNM) - holotype.

Hellinsia hoguei
- holotype - (cc) U. S. National Museum
Hellinsia hoguei
- cf. hoguei - © Jim Vargo

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