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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Burrowing Webworm Moths (Acrolophinae) » Tubeworm Moths (Acrolophus) » Acrolophus arcanella - Hodges#0340 (Acrolophus arcanella)
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Short and Stubby - Acrolophus arcanella
Copyright © 2016 Gacko

Short and Stubby - Acrolophus arcanella
Desoto, Dallas County, Texas, USA
June 16, 2016
Size: 13mm nose to wingtip
Came to light.
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Contributed by Gacko on 5 August, 2016 - 11:19am
Last updated 31 August, 2016 - 6:17pm

Moved
Moved from Tubeworm Moths.

Identified for me by Peter Jump. I sent him your photograph.
… A. Hendrickson, 31 August, 2016 - 6:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for doing the legwork for me!
… Gacko, 5 September, 2016 - 12:37pm login or register to post comments

 
.
Actually, I was trying to "develop and eye" for this species and wanted to know if this might be what they look like from the original description I had read. It helped me a lot.
… A. Hendrickson, 5 September, 2016 - 1:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Gacko, 5 August, 2016 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Gacko, 5 August, 2016 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

Looks like
one of the Tubeworm Moths.
… tom murray, 5 August, 2016 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Sigh...
Oh yes...one of THOSE (that never go beyond!) Thanks -- I kept looking at Owlets. A least I can file it away where it belongs now!
… Gacko, 5 August, 2016 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

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