Species Epiblema glenni - Glenn's Epiblema - Hodges#3184.1

3184.1

Epiblema glenni Wright, 2002

This species is named in honor of the late Murray O. Glenn for his contributions to the knowledge of the microlepidoptera of Central Illinois. (1)

FWL ≈ 5.0-8.5mm (male); 5.6-8.6mm (female) (1)

Adult: FW predominantly dark with a distinctly salmon colored interfascial spot at the middle of the dorsal margin, with its width narrowing markedly above the fold. In females, it continues forward to the costa as a narrower band. In males, it is separated from the costal fold by a narrow strip of dark scales. There are one to three small black marks along the inner margin, the latter sometimes weakly expressed or absent. (1)

female                        male

Genitalia:

"The sample of 78 specimens from Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee indicates a flight period from late May to mid September, but three-fourths of those records occurred between mid-July and mid-September." (1)

Moth Photographers Group – distribution & flight-period chart

Wright was unable to find characters of the male or female genitalia that would separate E. glenni from E. tripartitana. (1)

Epiblema tripartitana

Moth Photographers Group – images of live & pinned adults