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Species Wockia asperipunctella - Hodges#2415.1

cocoon under an oak leaf - Wockia asperipunctella

Pennsylvania Moth - Wockia asperipunctella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Urodoidea (False Burnet Moths)

Family Urodidae (False Burnet Moths)

Genus Wockia

Species asperipunctella (Wockia asperipunctella - Hodges#2415.1)

Hodges Number

2415.1

Explanation of Names

Author: Bruand, 1852

Size

WS≈18mm

Identification

Adult: FW grey with groups of raised scales at ⅓ from the base and additional black dots scattered on the wing. HW grey, in male with a yellowish hairpencil in the base below the folded anterior margin. Although it lacks striking pattern and coloration, the groups of raised scales in the FW makes it easy to recognize.

Range

Europe, Canada, and the northeastern US.

Season

Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides).

Life Cycle

Print References

Landry, Jean-François. 1998. ADDITIONAL NEARCTIC RECORDS OF WOCKIA ASPERIPUNCTELLA, WITH NOTES ON ITS DISTRIBUTION AND STRUCTURAL VARIATION (LEPIDOPTERA : URODIDAE). HOLARCTIC LEPIDOPTERA 5(l): 9-13

Aarvik, Leif & Lønnve, Ole Jørgen. 2011.Wockia asperipunctella (Bruand, 1851) (Lepidoptera, Urodidae), a species and a family new to Norway

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Wikipedia

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 10 January, 2011 - 9:41pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Tony-2, Robert Lord Zimlich, metrioptera
Last updated 5 September, 2020 - 9:18am

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