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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Nepticulidae
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A Zimmermannia in CA? No, maybe Acalyptris lotella then?
Copyright © 2018 Greg Smith

A Zimmermannia in CA? No, maybe Acalyptris lotella then?
San Marcos, San Diego County, California, USA
June 12, 2018
Size: est 4mm length
First photo matched this to Zimmermannia obrutella from BG photos, But going thru all 64 BG Zimmermannia images none came from anyplace west of TX. That distribution was echoed in MPG, the Berkeley Moth Database and iNaturalist.

Digging a bit further in BG I found A. lotella with 2 CA specimens, 1 from San Diego and 1 from neighboring Orange County so that’s my best photo match ID.

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A Zimmermannia in CA? No, maybe Acalyptris lotella then? A Zimmermannia in CA? No, maybe Acalyptris lotella then?
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Contributed by Greg Smith on 3 August, 2018 - 3:02pm
Last updated 6 August, 2018 - 10:31pm

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