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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Cosmet Moths (Cosmopterigidae) » Chrysopeleiinae » Walshia
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Cosmopterigidae, dorsal - Walshia
Copyright © 2016 MJ Hatfield

Cosmopterigidae, dorsal - Walshia
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
September 3, 2015
Size: 7- mm, head to wing tips

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 7 February, 2016 - 3:59pm
Last updated 9 February, 2017 - 4:22am

Moved
Moved from Walshia.
… Steve Nanz, 28 May, 2016 - 3:54am login or register to post comments

 
It might not help
but it looks like we need to start finding larvae and rearing.
… MJ Hatfield, 28 May, 2016 - 6:28am login or register to post comments

 
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I might help but we'd still need dissections. The host plants for most of these species is unknown.
… Steve Nanz, 28 May, 2016 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sweetclover Root Borer Moth.
… Steve Nanz, 28 May, 2016 - 3:44am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… MJ Hatfield, 9 February, 2016 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Not sure
see my comments here
… Steve Nanz, 23 May, 2016 - 3:21am login or register to post comments

 
So
back to Walshia?
… MJ Hatfield, 23 May, 2016 - 7:53am login or register to post comments

 
Still not sure
I think all the examples in this species should be place at the genus level until an expert can give reasonable guidance. BOLD has lumped nearly everything under miscecolorella so that seems useless. I'll add a comment in the Moth forum and see what others want to do.
… Steve Nanz, 23 May, 2016 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

Walshia miscecolorella?
Or perhaps (less likely) Mompha?
… Kyhl Austin, 9 February, 2016 - 9:31am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again.
I think W. miscecolorella looks good.
Info says: "stem borers in Melilotis (sweetclover)" which are plants I do a pretty good job of keeping out of the planted prairie. Info also adds: "other Fabaceae". There are several other native Fabaceae in the area. Would be fun to find stem borers.
… MJ Hatfield, 9 February, 2016 - 2:56pm login or register to post comments

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