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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) » Incertae sedis » Xylesthia » Speckled Xylesthia Moth - Hodges#0317 (Xylesthia pruniramiella)
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unknown lichenophile - Xylesthia pruniramiella
Copyright © 2014 Diane Young

unknown lichenophile - Xylesthia pruniramiella
Galveston State Park, Galveston County, Texas, USA
April 13, 2014
Size: ~ 5 mm
Found on lichen covered dead branches of live oak. This species seems to have fake eyes above the true ones.

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unknown lichenophile - Xylesthia pruniramiella lichen loving moth - Xylesthia pruniramiella
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Contributed by Diane Young on 15 April, 2014 - 2:04pm
Last updated 16 April, 2014 - 5:27pm

Moved to Xylesthia pruniramiella
Moved from Moths.

Congratulations, Diane. You have added April for Texas on BG. You do me proud.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 16 April, 2014 - 5:27pm login or register to post comments

 
I apolgise for my earlier comments about this species.
For just a millisecond after I saw these I thought they might be really exotic, undiscovered psocids. Ha Ha.
… Diane Young, 16 April, 2014 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

Speckled Xylesthia
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 16 April, 2014 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

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