Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

Clickable Guide

Interactive image map to choose major taxa Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

Upcoming Events

National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Metalmark Moths (Choreutoidea) » Metalmark Moths (Choreutidae) » Choreutinae » Brenthia

Genus Brenthia

Representative Images

2627 Peacock Brenthia - Brenthia pavonacella Brenthia parvonacella, pupa - Brenthia pavonacella We're thinking this is Brenthia pavonacella - Brenthia pavonacella We're thinking this is Brenthia pavonacella - Brenthia pavonacella Brenthia pavonacella 13Jun2017.BF.HN.lep1 - Brenthia pavonacella Peacock Brenthia - Hodges#2627 - Brenthia pavonacella Moth - Brenthia pavonacella
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Choreutoidea (Metalmark Moths)
Family Choreutidae (Metalmark Moths)
Subfamily Choreutinae
Genus Brenthia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Brenthia Clemens, 1860
Microaethia Chambers, 1878

Identification

Adult - has the habit of "strutting about broad leaves in shaded places," forewings spread and hindwings turned up at right angles to the forewing costa (Clemens).

Print References

Clemens, B. 1860. Contributions to American Lepidopterology - 4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 12: 172

Internet References

Metalmark Moth mimicry of Jumping Spiders by Jadranka Rota and David Wagner
Contributed by Cotinis on 27 May, 2007 - 2:40am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 7 December, 2014 - 10:39am

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2025 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

Printer Friendly Version 		Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact