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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Platyptiliini » Anstenoptilia » Sage Plume Moth - Hodges#6117 (Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla)

Species Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla - Sage Plume Moth - Hodges#6117

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References

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Plume moth with three dark diamonds on thorax - Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla

Plume moth - Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla

On catnip - Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Pterophoroidea (Plume Moths)

Family Pterophoridae (Plume Moths)

Subfamily Pterophorinae (Five-lobed Plume Moths)

Tribe Platyptiliini

Genus Anstenoptilia

Species marmarodactyla (Sage Plume Moth - Hodges#6117)

Hodges Number

6117

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla (Dyar, 1903)

Platyptilia marmarodactyla Dyar, 1903

* phylogenetic sequence #182600

Explanation of Names

Greek for "marble-fingered/toed."

Size

Wingspan 13.5-17 mm (Dyar, 1903).

Range

Typically a western species. Common in California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Records from Canada, Mexico, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. Likely transported with ornamental sage plants (Matthews & Watkins, 2011).

Food

Larvae feed on flower buds of a variety of sages and mints in the family Lamiaceae, including certain Salvia, Agastache, Lepechinia, Mentha, Mondardella, Pycnanthemum, and Trichostema (Matthews & Watkins, 2011).

See Also

In Florida, this species can be distinguished from three similar moths, Stenoptilodes brevipennis, Stenoptilodes taprobanes, Lantanophaga pusillidactyla, see Matthews & Watkins.

Print References

Dyar, H. G. 1903. New North American Lepidoptera with notes on larvae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 5(4): 296

Matthews, D. L. & R. A. Watkins 2011. Extralimital records of the sage plume moth, Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Southern Lepidopterists' News 33(4): 175-177, f. 1-2 (PDF)

Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.12.25m, p.119

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 17 July, 2006 - 1:54pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, treichard
Last updated 16 August, 2023 - 7:01pm

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