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Periploca
Copyright © 2011 Jay Greenberg

Periploca
Brighton, Monroe County, New York, USA
July 3, 2011
With its metallic coloring, recurved labial palps, and swellings at the bases of the antennae, this moth reminds me of a Coleophora. However, it does not seem like a match for any of the metallic Coleophora species at BugGuide.net: Metallic Coleophora Moth - Hodges#1387 (Coleophora mayrella), Species Coleophora trifolii - Large Clover Casebearer - Hodges#1388, Coleophora deauratella - Hodges#1398.2 (Coleophora deauratella).

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Periploca Coleophora species? - Periploca
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Contributed by Jay Greenberg on 12 July, 2011 - 12:52pm
Last updated 17 December, 2020 - 8:45pm

Moved, Periploca
Moved from Scavenger Moths.
… Aaron Hunt, 4 October, 2020 - 4:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Charley Eiseman, 8 October, 2011 - 4:41pm login or register to post comments

Blastobasine
This is one of the blastobasine coleophorids; I can't ID it further than that on sight. The main diagnostic point that would rule out the metallic Coleophora spp. is that this moth is considerably broader, relative to length, than they are; metallic Coleophora tend to be markedly slender moths.
… Terry Harrison, 3 October, 2011 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

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