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Pterophoridae 63a0110.1 – 6217   Hellinsia serenus (Meyrick, 1913)              Serene Plume Moth

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Similar Species: Hellinsia balanotes (Meyrick, 1908) Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: serenus (Meyrick, 1913) (Pterophorus) REV. STAT. Taxonomic Notes: Hellinsia serenus (Meyrick, 1913), rev. stat. (Matthews in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023), was treated as a synonym of Hellinsia balanotes (Meyrick, 1908) in Gielis (2003).

References

Gielis, C., 2003. Pterophoroidea & Alucitoidea (Lepidoptera). World Catalogue of Insects, 4: 1-198. 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). 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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