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Depressariidae, lateral - Agonopterix lythrella
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Depressariidae, lateral - Agonopterix lythrella
Land of the Swamp White Oak Preserve, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA
June 8, 2024
May 30, 2024: as we walked this fen, collected sign of larval feeding on a plant
**a very tentative note: I thought I collected the larva on Flowering spurge, Euphorbia corollata, however I am unable to verify. But I had to have provided fresh host plant?
July 2, 2024: moth

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 23 January, 2025 - 11:36am

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