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Photo#386575
Life cycle: adult - Nemapogon molybdanella

Life cycle: adult - Nemapogon molybdanella
Alameda County, California, USA
April 17, 2010
Size: ~6.9 mm, nose to wingtips

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Life cycle: larva - Nemapogon molybdanella Life cycle: postmolt - Nemapogon molybdanella Life cycle: tunneling - Nemapogon molybdanella Life cycle: another molt - Nemapogon molybdanella Life cycle: adult - Nemapogon molybdanella Life cycle: adult - Nemapogon molybdanella Life cycle: exuviae - Nemapogon molybdanella

Moved
Moved from Clothes Moths.

Probably 0268 - Nemapogon molybdanella
Identification by Don Davis at the USNM, to whom I sent the photograph, with the standard caveat that for absolute certainty the genitalia must be examined. (no rsvp, thanks)

Moved
Moved from Moths on the basis of Bob Patterson's comment of April 19th. (A clothes moth with a larval diet of raisin and hazelnut--another surprise for me.)

Probably ? Tineidae sp.
(no rsvp, thanks)

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