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Photo#1780236
Sarata pullatella - male

Sarata pullatella - Male
Eddy Mountains, 3,625', Siskiyou County, California, USA
February 16, 2020
Size: FW = ~15.5 mm
Attracted to light

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Moved
Moved from Sarata dophnerella.

Moved
Moved from Sarata.

Moved

 
Sarata dophnerella - 5871
I've been comparing descriptions of Sarata species, dophnerella, nigrifasciella, pullatella, and others. Sarata dophnerella seems a good match with these photos, color, pattern, size, and location. The description I reference below is in french and I may not be translating it well, but it seems to fit this moth, for example: "Upper wings of the male, strongly brownish gray and equal sprinkled of dark brown, the ribs blacker, transverse lines the background color, weakly shaded blackish in the median space..." and "Head and thorax, blackish brown. Antennae brown, black on the bridge. Palps black with white below. Blades are gray sprinkled with dark brown..."

The pinned specimen at MPG is a very close visual match.

Lastly, this may be the only Sarata species recorded in my area. S. dophnerella was collected just a few miles from me in 2003. Here's a link to the Essig Museum record. The 2003 moth was collected in July and mine was in February but there are other California records from as early as January.

Description:
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae. Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères rédigé par N.M. Romanoff, 7: 616; pl. 23, figs. 2a-b.

I'll move this to Sarata dophnerella for now and see what others think.

 
Still not sure
I should have the genus updated at MPG in a couple weeks. You might recheck next month.

 
February Sarata
There is a lot to be unsure about. S. iota is a February flying Sarata and has been reported not too far from me, but in a very different environment. S. iota may actually be S. pullatella if I read correctly. I think I have genitalia illustrations for male dophnerella and pullatella, and female illustrations for iota. Hopefully, I will collect a few next month, but I don't think they are common.

 
Dissect & barcode
Yes, if you can get both males and females dissected and barcoded, it will help with getting the species described with only females and given provisional Greek alphabet names in Heinrich (1956) lumped with previously described species with only males known.

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