Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Stylopalpia scobiella (Grote 1880)
Nephopteryx scobiella Grote 1880
Identification
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".
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Range
South and central Texas, north to Dallas; also reported from Colorado.
Season
May-August, October (BG, iNaturalist). Grote reported specimens in January, March, and July.
Print References
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.
