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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Sarata » Sarata incanella - Hodges#5868 (Sarata incanella)

Species Sarata incanella - Hodges#5868

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Internet References

Sarata Moth - side view - Sarata incanella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)

Family Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)

Subfamily Phycitinae

Tribe Phycitini

Genus Sarata

Species incanella (Sarata incanella - Hodges#5868)

Hodges Number

5868

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sarata incanella (Hulst, 1895)

Original Name: Epischnia incanella (Hulst, 1895)

Junior Synonym: Sarata aridella (Dyar, 1905)

Explanation of Names

Aridella => Arid (L) = dry + ella (L) = small

Incanella => incan (L) = antique + ella (L) = small

Numbers

one of 20 species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

wingspan about 26 mm, based on photo by Jim Vargo at MPG

Identification

Adult: FW slender, heavily speckled with black, white, gray, and some brownish scales • Indistinct blackish spot in AM area near inner margin, preceded by diffuse, white crescent • two indistinct blackish spots, near middle of distal area, near anal angle, also margined by whitish scales • Several fine black longitudinal lines in subterminal area, continuing basally along veins, reducing in number to 2 or 3 at base • thin dark subterminal line runs parallel to and very close to terminal line, with black dots on both sides • HW very broad, dirty white to light gray, with pale semitransparent fringe

Range

California, Utah, and probably adjacent states

Season

adults may be active all year in California

Food

unknown, but larvae of a related species (Sarata tephrella) almost certainly feed on Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)

See Also

compare images of 2 other Sarata species at All-Leps, and see images of numerous related species/genera by Jim Vargo at MPG

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – images of live and pinned adults

Canadian Entomologist v.27 p. 56 Original description of the species

Taxonomic note on Sarata tephrella Ragonot; PDF doc species account, including photos, habitat, seasonality, and presumed larval foodplant (Clifford Ferris and John Norton, Zootaxa, 2004, mapress.com)

presence in Utah; list (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)

presence in California; list of 5 specimen records with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 13 February, 2008 - 2:02pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 3 May, 2013 - 5:50pm

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