Hellinsia iobates is a moth of the Pterophoridae family that is found in Arizona. The wingspan is 17–20 millimetres (0.67–0.79 in). The head is brown above and in front and brownish white between the antennae. These are slender with a somewhat broken brown line above. The thorax and abdomen are brownish white, the latter sprinkled with brown scales about as heavily as the forewings and usually marked with single brown dorsal dots in the posterior margins of the segments and a powdery ventral line. The forewings are brownish white to pale tawny, in the first case a little ochreous in first lobe and in the second more whitish toward the base. The wings are sprinkled with dark brown scales, most heavily in the second lobe and along the inner half. The irroration is limited to these areas in s