Moved from Ozamia fuscomaculella.

When I asked Kyhl Austin about this placement he said he did not know anything about these species, so I am moving them all to O. clarefacta.

It is the only Ozamia that is supposed to be in Texas.

Moved from Butterflies and Moths.

TENTATIVE PLACEMENT. I think this placement may be in error. I have only seen this species once at our place and it was placed to species to the species of Ozamia clarifacta by ID James McDermott who currently is curating the TAMU collection. James has never been an editor but is highly qualified to be so. At that time he was a student. Notice he placed it on the SECOND photo, so maybe he was not so sure as he sounded - but the second photo was the best photo I posted. Mine was greener than this one but yours is are very close. My current Phol & Patterson list shows it as a full species with a Hodges number of 5987.1. I got out my Powell & Opler which was mentioned on the species page of O. fuscomoculella at MPG. It states that O. clarifacta is from Texas and described by Dyar. The Powell says it is similar to Ameyloisis transitella and lists it as a Cactobrosis Moth. In my experience Amyloisis transitella often has two dark spots on the thorax and is more common at our place.

NOTE that this species page was created with sketchy information by Kyhl Austin in 2016 and apparently he placed my moth at that time. I will contact him.

I am also posting another tentative possibility I found elsewhere in my files that "could" be the same species.