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Pterophoridae 63a0083.1 – 6179   Hellinsia meyricki (Barnes & Lindsey, 1921)              Meyrick's Plume Moth

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: meyricki Barnes & Lindsey 1921 (Oidaematophorus) Taxonomic Notes: Hellinsia meyricki (Barnes & Lindsey, 1921), rev. stat. (Matthews in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023), was treated as a synonym of Hellinsia fieldi (Wright, 1921) in Gielis (2003) and subsequently listed as a full species based on larval and pupal characteristics, (unpublished MS) in Matthews (2016), www.plumemoth.com, accessed May, 2017.

References

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., 1993. Generic revision of the superfamily Pterophoroidea. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 290: 1-139. 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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