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Species Ufa rubedinella - Hodges#5895

Representative Images

Red micro - Ufa rubedinella moth - Ufa rubedinella Ufa rubedinella - Ufa rubedinella - female Florida Moth - Ufa rubedinella Florida Moth - Ufa rubedinella Elasmopalpus lignosella? - Ufa rubedinella Ufa rubedinella - female Ufa rubedinella
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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)
Family Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)
Subfamily Phycitinae
Tribe Phycitini
No Taxon (Sarata Series)
Genus Ufa
Species rubedinella (Ufa rubedinella - Hodges#5895)

Hodges Number

5895

Numbers

one of 4 species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps
the only species occurring in Florida

Size

wingspan about 17 mm, based on two Internet photos

Identification

Adult: sexually dimorphic - male forewing brownish-red beyond PM line and along costa but pale yellowish elsewhere; female forewing reddish-brown except for pale strip along costa; both sexes with one or two dark discal dots in median area; hindwing more than twice as broad as forewing, white with dark terminal line and white fringe; labial palps relatively short, recurved partly over head

Range

Florida, Caribbean, and Central America

See Also

Tampa Moth forewing is bisected longitudinally (half dark, half pale)
moths in the tribe Peoriini such as Carmine Snout Moth have a long snout projecting foreward in front of the head

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)
Barcode of Life (BOLD)
pinned adult image (Matthew Barnes, Moths of Jamaica)
presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 19 April, 2007 - 10:28pm
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 1 November, 2023 - 2:04pm

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