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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Momphid Moths (Momphidae) » Momphinae » Mompha » Mompha stellella - Hodges#1455 (Mompha stellella)
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Mompha stellella? - Mompha stellella
Copyright © 2015 Nathan Carlos Rupley

Mompha stellella? - Mompha stellella
Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 31, 2015
Is this Mompha stellella? Find them most years while foraging evening primrose flower buds. After eating a few by accident, I realized that the flower buds that have short stout stems have these inside, while the long thin ones don't.

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Contributed by Nathan Carlos Rupley on 31 July, 2015 - 7:08am
Last updated 29 January, 2017 - 5:05pm

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… Kyhl Austin, 29 January, 2017 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

M. stellella
Given the host, locality, coloration and feeding mode of larva, and time of year, this can safely be diagnosed as Mompha stellella.
… Terry Harrison, 29 January, 2017 - 4:46pm login or register to post comments

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It does look like a Mompha larva. I'm not sure how many species feed in Oenothera flowerbuds.
… Charley Eiseman, 12 January, 2017 - 5:30pm login or register to post comments

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