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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Yucca Moths (Prodoxidae) » Prodoxinae
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Yucca moth - Tegeticula?
Copyright © 2010 Brian Peterson

Yucca moth - Tegeticula?
Murray Hill Scenic Overlook, Little Sioux, Harrison County, Iowa, USA
June 1, 2007
Flushed from Yucca glauca blossom...
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Contributed by Brian Peterson on 26 December, 2010 - 5:54pm
Last updated 1 December, 2013 - 4:58pm

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… Steve Nanz, 1 December, 2013 - 4:58pm login or register to post comments

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… Kevin Hall, 27 December, 2010 - 7:04pm login or register to post comments

I think the only species
of Tegeticula in Iowa would be T. yuccasella, but I could be mistaken. Yucca Moths do look much like the one in your photo.

I am not sure how to tell from just a photo, but it could also be Prodoxus decipiens (often considered as an eastern variant of P. quinquepunctellus), which also looks pretty much exactly like the one you photographed.
… David J. Ferguson, 27 December, 2010 - 12:17pm login or register to post comments

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