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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae
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Tubeworm moth?
Copyright © 2012 Jeff Gunter

Tubeworm moth?
Fannin County, Texas, USA
May 15, 2012

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Tubeworm moth? Tubeworm moth?
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Contributed by Jeff Gunter on 15 May, 2012 - 11:52pm
Last updated 16 May, 2012 - 10:19am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 16 May, 2012 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

Phycitine
This is a phycitine pyralid. Quite a few spp. in both the blastobasine coleophorids and the phycitine pyralids have independently arrived at a similar color pattern of being gray with an abrupt shift in shade of color about a quarter of the way out from the base of the forewing, so that moths in these two groups do sometimes look similar, even though not at all closely related. Probably the easiest way to tell them apart is that the forewings of phycitines are much broader than those of blastobasines, so that, as seen in this photo, the forewing is broad enough to be squared off at the apex; a blastobasine forewing, on the other hand, is so narrowly lanceolate that it comes to a sharp point apically.

The moth in this photo is quite worn; as a result, I can't get a make on what species it might be.
… Terry Harrison, 16 May, 2012 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

possibly worn Blastobasis glandulella - Hodges #1162
Blastobasis glandulella - Acorn Moth - Hodges#1162
… Maury J. Heiman, 16 May, 2012 - 12:25am login or register to post comments

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