Google
WWW MPG website only

Digital Guide to Moth Identification

Pterophoridae
63a0073.1 – 6099   Trichoptilus potentellus Lange, 1939
             Horkelia Plume Moth
Distribution Data for Trichoptilus potentellus
Large Map & Chart Report Errors About Maps
Distribution: Holotype: Half Moon Bay, CA.
Similar Species:
  • Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy: Trichoptilus potentellus Lange, 1940
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).
Photographs are needed for this species.

Moth Photographers Group  at the  Mississippi Entomological Museum  at the  Mississippi State University

Send suggestions, or submit photographs to Webmaster — Moth Photographers Group

Database design and scripting support provided by Mike Boone