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Donacaula melinellus? - Donacaula albicostellus - male
Copyright © 2015 Libby & Rick Avis

Donacaula melinellus? - Donacaula albicostellus - Male
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
June 26, 2015
A number of these found on mudflats in brackish channel.

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Donacaula melinellus? - Donacaula albicostellus - male Donacaula melinellus? - Donacaula albicostellus - male
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Contributed by Libby & Rick Avis on 11 July, 2015 - 11:47am
Last updated 12 April, 2020 - 11:46am

Moved
Moved from Donacaula.
… Aaron Hunt, 11 April, 2020 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

Have you checked out Martínez's revision of Donacaula?
.
… Kyhl Austin, 4 March, 2016 - 8:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Male albicostella…
looks good here to me.
… Aaron Hunt, 21 August, 2019 - 1:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Crambid Snout Moths.
… Kyhl Austin, 4 March, 2016 - 8:11pm login or register to post comments

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