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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Ethmiinae » Ethmia » semilugens group (Ethmia semilugens group) » Ethmia arctostaphylella - Hodges#0979 (Ethmia arctostaphylella)

Species Ethmia arctostaphylella - Hodges#0979

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Gelechioidea (Twirler Moths and kin)

Family Depressariidae

Subfamily Ethmiinae

Genus Ethmia

No Taxon (semilugens group)

Species arctostaphylella (Ethmia arctostaphylella - Hodges#0979)

Hodges Number

0979

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

original combination Psecadia arctostaphylella Walsingham, 1880 (1)

Size

forewing length 8.5 - 14 mm (2)

Range

southern Oregon to northern Baja California and northern Arizona (2)

Habitat

occurs almost everywhere that mountain balm or yerba santa, Eriodictyon (Hydrophyllaceae), flourishes, most often in disturbed sites such as along rural roadsides (2)

Season

adults fly February to October, multivoltine (1)

Food

mountain balm or yerba santa, Eriodictyon californicum, Eriodictyon crassifolium (2)

Life Cycle

at maturity larvae pupate on the host leaves or wander (1)

Remarks

Adults rest by day along the midrib of the Eriodictyon leaf, resembling a bird dropping (2)

See Also

Ethmia discostrigella

Ethmia semitenebrella

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - image of pinned specimen

Works Cited

1.	A systematic monograph of New World ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Jerry A. Powell. 1973. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 120: 1-312.

2.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Harsi S. Parker on 15 May, 2010 - 1:33am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 December, 2012 - 10:01am

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