Micro - Ethmia - BugGuide.Net

not Ethmia bipunctella

E. bipunctella is not on the California Moth List, and a query of its Hodges number (986) returns no results from the California Moth Specimens Database. If you know the Hodges number, the California Database is easy to check for any moth species by adding the # to the end of the URL; for example, Ethmia albistrigella (Hodges # 973) returns 10 results.

See my comment here on the difficulty in identifying Ethmia species in California. Image moved from Viper's Bugloss Moth to Ethmia page.

… Robin McLeod, 15 April, 2007 - 10:01am

You don't think they're the same?

They sure look pretty similar, but as I'm not good with mico-leps I'll defer to you

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 15 April, 2007 - 10:05am

It looks like you replied...

while I was still writing my comment. Wow, that was quick!

… Robin McLeod, 15 April, 2007 - 10:15am

Moved

Moved from Ethmia.

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 14 April, 2007 - 9:14pm

Moved

to genus page

… Beatriz Moisset, 20 July, 2006 - 5:28pm

yes

I agree, that's what I just posted on your other pic. I think this is an Ethmia longimaculella. This one is more clearly marked.

… Julia Booth, 9 July, 2006 - 1:21am

Ethmia species

I agree this is an Ethmia but there's at least 22 species in California (longimaculella is not among them) and several species have this forewing pattern of dark upper half and white lower half: epileuca, hodgesella, marmorea, monticola, plagiobothrae, semilugens. Click California on the image map here to bring up a list of links.

Several other species in the list have no photos (including two new species named "A" and "B") and one or more of them might also look similar to your photo, so I think genus level is as far as we can go at the moment.

… Robin McLeod, 9 July, 2006 - 5:02am

Thats the ironical part

I didn't post the other image :-)

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 9 July, 2006 - 1:35am

ha ha

they came up at the same time, I just naturally assumed they were from the same person. They may very well be the same species. These are so hard to tell apart, though.

… Julia Booth, 9 July, 2006 - 8:55pm