Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma

Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in the United States in Colorado, Utah and California.

Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Pterophoridae
Genus:
Paraplatyptilia
Species:
P. xylopsamma
Binomial name
Paraplatyptilia xylopsamma
(Meyrick, 1908)[1]
Synonyms
  • Platyptilia xylopsamma Meyrick, 1908
  • Stenoptilia schwarzi Dyar, 1903
  • Stenoptilia gorgoniensis Grinnell, 1908

The wingspan is about 28 millimetres (1.1 in). The head is light yellow-ocherous sprinkled with whitish. The antennae are whitish-ocherous, with a dark fuscous line above. The thorax is brownish-ocherous sprinkled with whitish and the abdomen is whitish-ocherous, faintly streaked with brownish. The forewings are brownish-ocherous, slightly sprinkled with whitish, although the dorsal half is suffused with pale whitish-ocherous from the base to the cleft. The hindwings are ferruginous-fuscous.[2]

References
  1. Mothphotographersgroup
  2. "Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America". Retrieved 30 June 2011.


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