Species Stylopalpia scobiella - Hodges#5820

5820

Stylopalpia scobiella (Grote 1880)

Nephopteryx scobiella Grote 1880

Palpi upturned; head, thorax, and base of FWs mostly unmarked buff, usually with just a few small brown spots, often blending into a dull reddish streak along inner margin of FWs; diffuse creamy white streak along costa speckled with brown; most of remainder of FW grizzled pale gray with a couple of larger pairs of black and white dashes in the center of inner margin (top of folded wings) and at end of cell; terminal line of small black dots. The typical Phycitine pattern of transverse lines and a pair of discal dots is "nearly obliterated".(1)

South and central Texas, north to Dallas; also reported from Colorado.

May-August, October (BG, iNaturalist). Grote reported specimens in January, March, and July.

Grote, A.R. 1880. North American Phycidae. North American Entomologist. 1(7): 51. PDF on Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Heinrich, C. 1956. American Moths of the Subfamily Phycitinae. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 207:141.(1) PDF on Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Neunzig, H. H., 2003. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.5, p. 139; pl. 8.27.

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)