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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ermine Moths and kin (Yponomeutoidea) » Diamondback Moths (Plutellidae) » Plutella » Diamondback Moth - Hodges#2366 (Plutella xylostella)
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Moth June 2007 hhh - Plutella xylostella
Copyright © 2007 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Moth June 2007 hhh - Plutella xylostella
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 29, 2007
Size: 1/3 inch approx

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Moth June 2007 hhh - Plutella xylostella Moth June 2007 hhh - Plutella xylostella
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 4 July, 2007 - 2:33pm
Last updated 23 January, 2008 - 7:57pm

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… tom murray, 23 January, 2008 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

This guy has been posted on h
This guy has been posted on here a lot. At first, the ringed antennae, being held forward made me think Coleophoridae. Yet there are no species in that family I know of marked like this, plus the wing shape doesn't match.

What I now believe is it's a Plutellidae. It's very similar to Plutella xylostella
… Dennis Profant, 5 July, 2007 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

 
The other photo sure looks li
The other photo sure looks like
http://bugguide.net/node/view/57540/bgimage
Doesn't it?
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 5 July, 2007 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

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