Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

Clickable Guide

Interactive image map to choose major taxa Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

Upcoming Events

Possible 2026 BugGuide gathering in Texas?

National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Species Lipocosma albinibasalis - Hodges#4886

Representative Images

Moth V - Lipocosma albinibasalis Arizona Moth - Lipocosma albinibasalis moth - Lipocosma albinibasalis 4886 - Lipocosma albinibasalis Lipocosma albinibasalis Lipocosma albinibasalis Lipocosma albinibasalis Lipocosma albinibasalis
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)
Family Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)
Subfamily Glaphyriinae
Genus Lipocosma
Species albinibasalis (Lipocosma albinibasalis - Hodges#4886)

Hodges Number

4886

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lipocosma albinibasalis Munroe, 1995
replaces Lipocosma albibasalis (Barnes & McDunnough,1911)

Explanation of Names

Albibasalis is Latin for "white at the base".

Size

Forewing length 7-8 mm.(1)

Identification

Adult - white proximal half of forewing sharply divided from mostly dark brownish-gray distal half.

Range

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the range to include Southern California and Baja California. (1)
Moth Photographers Group includes southern Arizona. (2)

Season

Powell & Opler (2009) reported June to September in California. (1)

See Also

Lipocosma polingi is the only other member of the genus in the western states, and is known from the Baboquivari Mountains in southern Arizona, and recently identified in southern Texas.

Print References

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl. 22, fig. 8; p.172.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
presence in California; list of 5 specimen records with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)

Works Cited

1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 9 September, 2009 - 12:09am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 29 August, 2014 - 10:18am

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2026 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

 Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact