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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Scopariinae » Gesneria

Genus Gesneria

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · Internet References
Gesneria centuriella maybe - Gesneria centuriella Moth with Mite - Gesneria centuriella Gesneria centuriella Unknown Moth - Gesneria centuriella grey moth - Gesneria centuriella Moth - Gesneria centuriella Unknown Moth - Gesneria centuriella Gesneria centuriella
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)
Family Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)
Subfamily Scopariinae
Genus Gesneria
Numbers
2 species in North America listed at All-Leps
Size
wingspan 23-30 mm
Identification
Adult: forewing variably gray to brown with black spots and jagged AM and PM lines; median area pale compared to dark distal half of wing; hindwing light yellowish-gray with dark discal spot and terminal band
Range
G. centuriella: most of southern Canada and northern United States; also represented throughout northern Eurasia
G. rindgeorum: western United States (?) - one Internet record from Utah
Season
adults fly in summer (June to August)
Remarks
Thanks to Brian Scholtens for identifying this image, and to Bob Patterson for relaying the ID to BugGuide.
Internet References
pinned adult image of G. centuriella by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)
pinned adult image of G. centuriella (A. Sasaki, Japan)
presence in Utah; list of G. rindgeorum (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)
presence in Michigan; PDF doc list of G. centuriella (Mogens Nielsen, U. of Michigan)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 April, 2006 - 8:32pm

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