update: 24.09.2022
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Pterophoridae
Pterophorinae / Oidaematophorini
Hellinsia calais
(MEYRICK, 1930)
Distribution / Verbreitung
Costa Rica, Brazil
Original Description
Type locality: Brazil, Pernambuco, Serra do Bernade
Remarks / Bemerkung
The species is characterized by the dark mottled wing pattern with an ferruginous-orange erect scale tuft on wing just before base of cleft. It differs from Oidaematophorus trachyploeus by the shape of the male genitalia.
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Hellinsia calais
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