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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Euzophera Series » Euzophera » American Plum Borer - Hodges#5995 (Euzophera semifuneralis)
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Root Collar Borer Moth? - Euzophera semifuneralis
Copyright © 2007 Steve Scott

Root Collar Borer Moth? - Euzophera semifuneralis
Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
April 22, 2007
Size: 1 cm +
At light at night.
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Contributed by Steve Scott on 23 April, 2007 - 8:56pm
Last updated 2 March, 2008 - 1:29pm

Moved
Moved from Euzophera.
… Steve Scott, 2 March, 2008 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

Looks Like It.
B.P.
… Bob Patterson, 24 April, 2007 - 5:30am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for the confirmation. Will leave at genus until a species page for Euzophera ostricolorella (Root Collar Borer Moth - 5997) is up.
… Steve Scott, 24 April, 2007 - 6:55am login or register to post comments

 
well...
after creating a species page, I lightened your photo on my hard drive for a better look at the details.

I now think yours looks more like Jim Vargo's photo of E. semifuneralis than ostricolorella. Compare both species here. Root Collar Borer has more reddish color beyond the PM line, and lacks a subterminal line, whereas American Plum Borer has more pale gray/whitish color beyond the PM line, and appears to have a diffuse subterminal line - as in your photo. See more pics here and here.
… Robin McLeod, 2 March, 2008 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Robin
I would have to agree. I've started routinely lightening my images prior to upload so we shouldn't have to run into this more than a couple hundred more times this year. :(
… Steve Scott, 2 March, 2008 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

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