Species Glaucina escaria - Hodges#6495

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Glaucina escaria (Grote, 1882)

Tornos escaria Grote, 1882 (1)

Lepiodes escaria

Glaucina puellaria Dyar, 1907 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence #910910.00

Forewing length 11-15 mm. (3)

Male forewings gray, heavily overlain with grayish brown or black; AM line weakly represented or absent; PM line complete but sometimes weakly represented, outwardly produced on veins with moderate concave loop approaching inner margin; ST line faintly indicated shaded basally by a slightly dark band; terminal area concolorous with remainder of wing; terminal line narrow, black or blackish brown; fringe slightly paler than wing, darkened opposite veins. Hindwing whitish gray, overlain with pale grayish brown scales, anal margin darker, small discal dot and incomplete extradiscal line present. Females similar to males, not as dark above with cross lines more prominent, hindwings with darkish band along outer margin. (3)

membraneous invaginations extend transversely, at right angles to the ductus bursae.

Southern Arizona. (3) In his review of the genus Grossbeck included material from the deserts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and California for Glaucina puellaria, now synonomyzed with escaria. Dr. Ed Knudson has confirmed sightings in Texas most often in the Rio Grande Valley, but occasionally in Uvalde Co. and in the Kerrville area.

Adults fly March through October. (3)

This is the type species for Glaucina.

Glaucina eupetheciaria can be considerably smaller at FWL = 9-13 mm.

Grossbeck, J.A., 1912. A review of the species comprising the Glaucina-Coenocharis Group. Bulletin AMNH 31: 381-407

Grote, A.R., 1882. New moths. The Canadian Entomologist 14(10): 186. (1)

Rindge, F.H., 1959. A revision of the Glaucina, Synglochis, and Eubarnesa. Bulletin AMNH 118(6): 259-366, f.1-106, pl.23-27 (PDF) (3)

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (4)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona - photo of pinned adults