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Pterophoridae 63a0073.1 – 6099   Trichoptilus potentellus Lange, 1939              Horkelia Plume Moth

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: potentellus Lange 1939 (Trichoptilus); Type locality: Holotype: Half Moon Bay, CA Taxonomic Notes: Hellinsia angustus (Walsingham, 1880), rev. stat. (Matthews in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023), was treated as a synonym of Hellinsia pectodactylus (Staudinger, 1859) in Gielis (2003).

References

Lange, W.H., 1939. Two new California plume moths (Lepidoptera - Pterophoridae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 38: 164. Matthews, D.L., 2016. Pterophoridae of North America - "Plume Moths". Online self-published. website Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order).

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