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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 » Walshia amorphella - Hodges#1616 (Walshia amorphella)
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Cosmopterigidae (Cosmet Moth), Lead plant stem gall moth, dorsal - Walshia amorphella
Copyright © 2017 MJ Hatfield

Cosmopterigidae (Cosmet Moth), Lead plant stem gall moth, dorsal - Walshia amorphella
Red Oak Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
Size: 7+ mm, head to wing tips
May 20, 2016: collected several stem galls on Lead plant, Amorpha canescens
June 2016: one gall still on my desk, open it to find a pupa, open pupa & moth is alive! Let it be, it emerges, but I freeze it. Will send to T Harrison for clarification as per this post:

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 7 January, 2017 - 12:02pm
Last updated 27 November, 2017 - 6:12am

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