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North American Lepidoptera Genitalia Library

Pterophoridae 630081.1 – 6178.1 – Hellinsia hoguei (Gielis, 1996) – Hogue's Plume Moth

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Hellinsia hoguei (Gielis, 1996) is now recognized within the North American fauna north of Mexico, based on Arizona specimens in USNM collected by Ronald W. Hodges and provisionally identified by Reed A. Watkins in 2007.

Barcode of Life (BOLD) Gielis, C., 2011. Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part II: Pterophorinae (Oidaematophorini, Pterophorini) (Lepidoptera). Zoologische Mededelingen, 85: 589-824. Species Page at BugGuide.Net U.S. National Entomological Collection (USNM) - holotype.

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- cf. hoguei - © Jim Vargo

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