Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Aetole tripunctella (Walsingham)
Orig. Comb: Heliodines tripunctella Walsingham 1892
Syn:
Heliodines perichalca Meyrick, 1912
(2)Size
forewing length 3.8 - 5 mm
(2)Identification
Adults - metallic chrome orange edged by elongate metallic gray tinged with blue, outer margin extending inward over half of dorsum and 1/3 of costa; three costal and one dorsal metallic gray spots tinged with blue. Spots rectangular, edged laterally in black. Outer margin also edged in metallic black. Fringe metallic gray
(2)
Range
mostly Great Plains to Front Range -
Map - MPG
Life Cycle
larva is a leaf miner of heartleaf four o'clock (
Mirabilis nyctaginea, Nyctaginaceae)
(2)Remarks
Type Locality: Bosque County, Texas; Type collected by
BelfragePrint References
Hsu, Y.-F., and J.A. Powell. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships within Heliodinidae and systematics of moths formerly assigned to
Heliodines Stainton (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology 124: 1-158 + Figs. 26-220.
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