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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) » Oidaematophorini » Hellinsia » Black-marked Plume Moth - Hodges#6186 (Hellinsia inquinatus)
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Pterophoridae, reared on Western Ragweed - Hellinsia inquinatus
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Pterophoridae, reared on Western Ragweed - Hellinsia inquinatus
Weaver Dunes, Wabasha County, Minnesota, USA
August 21, 2014
Size: 16 mm wingspan
July 6, 2014: collected Western Ragweed, Ambrosia psilostachya, with herbivory.
The larva I photographed eating and frassing down the inside of the stem was not the corresponding larva for this moth.
August 6, 2014: an adult Plume Moth emerged
(August 8, 2014: an adult micro-moth emerged. August 9, 2014: an adult tortricid emerged.)
August 21, 2014: this adult Plume Moth emerged.

2016 rearing attempt on Western Ragweed


sand prairie remnant

(tentative) Hellinsia inquinatus (complex) as per Dr. Deborah Matthews

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 29 December, 2014 - 10:45am
Last updated 8 January, 2019 - 7:35pm

Moved
We'll move this, even though ID is tentative, and add Dr. Matthews' comments to the info page, so folks will understand this is a complex right now.
… john and jane balaban, 8 January, 2019 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thank you.
… MJ Hatfield, 8 January, 2019 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

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