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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Acentropinae » Argyractini » Petrophila » Petrophila longipennis - Hodges#4783 (Petrophila longipennis)
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Petrophila longipennis
Copyright © 2018 Ray Simpson

Petrophila longipennis
Sedona, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
April 6, 1954
Size: 30mm
From the Yale Peabody Museum Colelction.

A BIG southwestern Petrophila. Size alone separates it from others in the area. P. schaefferalis gets close in size but is much duller gray-brown rather than reddish brown and has more diffuse markings.
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Contributed by Ray Simpson on 20 September, 2018 - 4:17pm
Last updated 1 March, 2019 - 7:50pm

avernalis can be as large
Noticed your comment on this photo that size alone of longipennis separates it from other SW Petrophila. I recently posted a ~17 mm TL avernalis from NM. It really looks like a freak of nature and would probably compete in size with most longipennis. According to Jim Vargo, female avernalis are known to get as big as longipennis. Here is a link to that photo.
… Steve Morris, 24 July, 2021 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Petrophila.
… Aaron Hunt, 1 March, 2019 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

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