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Species Ethmia discostrigella - Hodges#0980

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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 Elachistidae (Grass Miner Moths)
Subfamily Ethmiinae
Genus Ethmia
No Taxon (semilugens group)
No Taxon (discostrigella complex)
Species discostrigella (Ethmia discostrigella - Hodges#0980)

Hodges Number

0980

Other Common Names

Mountain-mahogany Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ethmia discostrigella (Chambers, 1877)
Anesychia discostrigella Chambers, 1877

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the forewing length 10-14 mm. (1)

Identification

Genitalia:

Range

Western Texas to California, northern Utah, Wyoming, and northern Oregon. (1)

Food

Mountain mahogany. (1)

Remarks

Powell & Opler (2009) reported this species to be the most common of the genus in North America with the adults often swarming around lights. (1)

Print References

(2)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 69; plate 5, fig. 24-25. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.A systematic monograph of New World ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea).
Jerry A. Powell. 1973. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 120: 1-312.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by tom murray on 20 July, 2006 - 11:47pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi, Steve Morris
Last updated 10 July, 2024 - 8:02pm

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