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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Acentropinae » Argyractini » Petrophila » Confusing Petrophila - Hodges#4780 (Petrophila confusalis)

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heres one i never figured out - Petrophila confusalis

Wolf Creek, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
August 8, 2009
Size: small

im not sure who these moths are, i remember franticly going from moth to moth back then, and never comming to any sort of conclusion that pleased me.

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Contributed by Edna Woodward on 18 January, 2010 - 9:26pm
Last updated 28 September, 2019 - 1:59pm

Moved

Moved from Argyractini. Pretty typical Confusing Petrophila with its zigzag median white line on the FWs, speckled postmedian area with a few dark dots around the perimeter, and a thin dark line over the HW eyespots (just barely exposed here). This is the West Coast repreentative of the fulicalis-species group.

… Chuck Sexton, 28 September, 2019 - 1:59pm

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Moved

Moved from Acentropinae.

… Aaron Hunt, 7 April, 2017 - 3:56pm

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Moved

Moved from Moths.

… Charley Eiseman, 26 January, 2010 - 10:03pm

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Quite Possibly 4780 - Petrophila confusalis

.... I hope that's pleasing. If it isn't I may be in a state of despair. Please be pleased :-)

… Bob Patterson, 19 January, 2010 - 2:12am

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Petrophila?

Something that loves gasoline?

… Christopher Adam, 20 January, 2010 - 7:28am

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ahahahahahahahahah!

Petrolphila?
did you ever notice that horrid DQ ad where the teeth seperate from the lips? thats how i often feel with these critters. 2 doubles? 2 singles?

… Edna Woodward, 20 January, 2010 - 8:26am

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of course i am pleased..

did you say your new nick is Pattersonios confusalis? i know it felt like mine! (grin)

… Edna Woodward, 19 January, 2010 - 10:02am

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Well,

this is tough without it being spread. It's a Crambidae, possibly Chrysendeton or Petrophila species.

… Chris Grinter, 18 January, 2010 - 11:16pm

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