Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Seeboldia incanella - Hodges#5868

Phycitinae? - Seeboldia incanella Phycitini - Seeboldia incanella Phycitini - Seeboldia incanella Pyralid? - Seeboldia incanella - female Pyralid? - Seeboldia incanella - female
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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
No Taxon (Sarata Series)
Genus Seeboldia
Species incanella (Seeboldia incanella - Hodges#5868)
Hodges Number
5868
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Seeboldia incanella (Hulst, 1895)
Sarata incanella (Hulst, 1895)
Epischnia incanella Hulst, 1895
Megasis aridella Dyar, 1905
Explanation of Names
Aridella => Arid (L) = dry + ella (L) = small
Incanella => incan (L) = antique + ella (L) = small
Size
Male FWL 11.5–17.0 mm(1)
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
CO: no location; UT: Tooele Co.; CA: Inyo(1), Kern, Los Angeles, Placer, & Riverside Cos. (UC Berkeley)
Season
adults may be active all year in California
Food
unknown, but larvae of a related species (Megasis tephrella) almost certainly feed on Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
Print References
Neunzig, H.H., 2003. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.5. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation: 213; pl. 10.25.(1)
Hulst, G.D., 1895. Descriptions of Some New Species of Epipaschiinæ and Phycitidæ. Canadian Entomologist 27(3): 56.
Ferris, C.D. & J.S. Nordin, 2004. Taxonomic Note on Sarata tephrella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Zootaxa 569: 1–7.
Dyar, H.G., 1905. New North American Lepidoptera and Synonymical Notes. Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 7(1): 35–36.(2)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 15.5. Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae
H. H. Neunzig. 2003. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
2.New North American Lepidoptera and synonymical notes
Harrison D. Dyar. 1905. Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington, 7: 29-39.