Mugwort Plume

Hellinsia lienigianus

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae

Hellinsia lienigianus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae which inhabits coastal areas, dry pastures and waste ground and is found in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. Also known as the mugwort plume, it was first described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852. Description The wingspan is 17–21 millimetres (0.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Julien Renoult, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionHellinsia lienigianus, Wikipedia contributors

Mugwort Plume

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