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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Tineidae "Clade B" Regier et al., 2014 » Leucomele » Leucomele miriamella - Hodges#0282  (Leucomele miriamella)
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Tineidae, dorsal - Leucomele miriamella
Copyright © 2013 MJ Hatfield

Tineidae, dorsal - Leucomele miriamella
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June 27, 2012
Size: 5.4 mm
T. Harrison says: Leucomele miriamella is reasonably common at light in woods here in IL. The larva undoubtedly feeds on some fungus in dead wood.
Size is head to end of wing
Woods black light

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 31 March, 2013 - 8:59pm
Last updated 11 February, 2017 - 7:59pm

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Nice!
Thank you!
… Maury J. Heiman, 10 April, 2013 - 2:32am login or register to post comments

No expert
But I thought it might be Hodges 0282 or something around there.
… A. Hendrickson, 2 April, 2013 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

 
You may not be an expert,
but T. Harrison agrees with your ID.
… MJ Hatfield, 9 April, 2013 - 8:25pm login or register to post comments

 
.
Thank you very much for letting me know. I am trying to "train my eye".
… A. Hendrickson, 9 April, 2013 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

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