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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Gelechiinae » Gelechiini » Chionodes » obscurusella group (Chionodes obscurusella group) » obscurusella complex (Chionodes obscurusella complex) » Boxelder leafworm moth  - Hodges#2099 (Chionodes obscurusella)
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Starflower gelechiid - Chionodes obscurusella
Copyright © 2015 Charley Eiseman

Starflower gelechiid - Chionodes obscurusella
Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
May 28, 2015
Size: 11.5 mm
Found on Lysimachia / Trientalis borealis, but I'm not sure it ever actually fed on this host. It began spinning a cocoon on the day I collected it.

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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 16 November, 2015 - 8:36am
Last updated 15 February, 2020 - 5:04pm

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Charlie, I know I am not who you want to hear from, and I don't know about that vegetation, but I thought the dark C marking in the PM area looked like the spread image on MPG http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=2099]here and the BOLD specimen MDH000331.
… A. Hendrickson, 16 November, 2015 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks--Chionodes obscurusella seems plausible
There was certainly sugar maple nearby, and that's one of the hosts according to Wikipedia.
… Charley Eiseman, 16 November, 2015 - 9:20am login or register to post comments

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