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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Metalmark Moths (Choreutoidea) » Metalmark Moths (Choreutidae) » Choreutinae » Brenthia » Peacock Brenthia - Hodges#2627 (Brenthia pavonacella)
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moth - Brenthia pavonacella
Copyright © 2007 Kim Fleming

moth - Brenthia pavonacella
Donalds, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
May 24, 2007
tiny, maybe 5mm long or so.
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Contributed by Kim Fleming on 24 May, 2007 - 7:04pm
Last updated 27 May, 2007 - 2:41am

Looks like a Choreutidae, pos
Looks like a Choreutidae, possibly Hodges#2627 Brenthia pavonacella
… Dennis Profant, 24 May, 2007 - 9:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks Like a Good Match for that species....
... at All-Leps Barcoding Project
… Bob Patterson, 25 May, 2007 - 1:29am login or register to post comments

 
thanks both
It was strutting around like a little peacock! Had never seen a moth quite like it.
… Kim Fleming, 25 May, 2007 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

 
That's IT !! Peacock Brenthia.....
Pavo is "Peacock" in Latin, and this thought obviously occured to the describer, J. Brackenridge Clemens (1860).
… Bob Patterson, 25 May, 2007 - 7:06pm login or register to post comments

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