Species Stegea sola - Hodges#4860

4860

Stegea sola Munroe, 1972

The genus Stegea includes seven named species in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)

forewing length ~5 mm (3)

Description available in MONA Fascicle 13-1B at link in citations below. From key to species in the fascicle, forewing with AM/PM lines narrow, pale gray, inconspicuous but well defined, about equally distinct; AM line with sharp, distally pointed angle in cell. (3)

Unfortunately, it appears that Munroe did not include an image of this species in the MONA Fascicles. Images for species covered under Fascicle 13-1A, 13-1B and 13-1C are all included at the back of Fascicle 13-1C. No image of sola can be found in Fascicle 13-1C. In the body of Fascicle 13-1B where sola is described, it is mentioned that sola would be illustrated in Fascicle 13-2, but a search of Fascicles 13-2A and 13-2B did not find an illustration of sola.

Southern Texas (4)

Stegea mexicana and Stegea simplicialis are both similar and found in south Texas, however these two species have the basal area of the forewings darker and rest of forewing and the AM line indistinct or absent. (3)

Moth Photographers Group (2)