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Moth - Ephestiodes erythrella

Moth - Ephestiodes erythrella
In Westwood by outdoor night light; elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
July 20, 2012
Size: Nose to wingtip - 8mm
A search at MPG, for a match for this rather pretty little moth, was not successful. Any further ID help is appreciated - Thanks. Thinking perhaps a pyralid of some sort.


ID Update:
Please see ID Update comment posted with this specimen:



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Re Update
This matches Heinrich's description of E. erythrella. I moved this prior to seeing your update above. I'll have to do a little more digging.

 
Bad BOLD Data
Your linked image is in BOLD:ACJ0443. It's nearest neighbor is BOLD:AAG0420 and contains specimens identified as infimella. It's nearest neighbor is BOLD:ACE7216 also with specimens identified as infimella. All three BINS are western. But infimella is eastern. The species page for infimella contains examples from BOLD:AAG0420 and BOLD:ACE7216 plus BOLD:AAA8255. This last BIN is eastern and is not that close to your linked sample. It contains the majority of samples and seems correct. I suspect that BOLD:ACJ0443, BOLD:AAG0420, and BOLD:ACE7216 are the same species. They are all pretty close. There is a BIN for erythrella, BOLD:AAH4272, but the images in general lack the red tones though there is some overlap.

Since BOLD BINs are not corresponding to described species in a fully useful way, perhaps we should go by the literature for now. I suggest that all the ones that look like this and your linked example should be placed tentatively in erythrella for now. It would seem that the alternative would be to place all images of erythrella, infimella, and gilvescentella regardless of location and appearance.

 
Thank you Steve!
My guess is that the original erythrella specimen submitted had a wrong species ID, even before being sequenced; thus resulting in false species matching for subsequent submissions; and thus a non match for my specimens.

I went ahead and moved my other submission to the E. erythrella location.

Moved
Moved from Ephestiodes.

Moved
Moved from Pyralid Moths.

Moved
Moved from Moths.

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