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Tortricidae, frass on Oxeye flowers - Thyraylia voxcana

Tortricidae, frass on Oxeye flowers - Thyraylia voxcana
Hayden Prairie, Howard County, Iowa, USA
July 23, 2022
July 23, 2022: collected a few frass piled flowers heads of Oxeye false sunflowers, Heliopsis helianthoides, in this prairie remnant
August 14, 2022: moth emerged

Also reared on Oxeye false sunflower:


Larvae associated with Oxeye rearings:

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Tortricidae, frass on Oxeye flowers - Thyraylia voxcana Tortricidae, dorsal - Thyraylia voxcana Tortricidae, lateral - Thyraylia voxcana Tortricidae, spent pupa in stem - Thyraylia voxcana Tortricidae, spent pupaX - Thyraylia voxcana

Moved
Moved from Thyraylia.

Moved
Moved from Tortricid Moths.

Thyraylia voxcana
specimen compares with type photo of voxcana which has recently become available

ground color dirty white with a pinkish hue
interfascial area between median and postmedian bands bissected by row of black scales

Thyraylia sp.
dissected female

 
Thank you.
Guess I need to keep trying to rear another one, a male. Considering all the larvae I confine, I've gotten very few adults, maybe 3.

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