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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Scavenger Moths (Blastobasidae) » Scavenger Moths (Blastobasinae) » Blastobasini » Pigritia » murtfeldtella complex (Pigritia murtfeldtella complex) » Pigritia murtfeldtella - Hodges#1246 (Pigritia murtfeldtella)
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Blastobasis ? - Pigritia murtfeldtella
Copyright © 2014 Kevin Metcalf

Blastobasis ? - Pigritia murtfeldtella
Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
June 19, 2014
This tiny species occurs regularly at my lights, but I have struggled to find a match. Seems close to some Blastobasis sp.

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Blastobasis ? - Pigritia murtfeldtella Blastobasis ? - Pigritia murtfeldtella
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Contributed by Kevin Metcalf on 20 June, 2014 - 8:37pm
Last updated 25 December, 2021 - 12:13am

Moved
Moved from Pigritia.
… Aaron Hunt, 25 December, 2021 - 12:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 June, 2014 - 5:58am login or register to post comments

Pigritia
You're in the right neck of the woods. This is a blastobasid, but the apparent complete lack of labial palpi diagnose it as being in the genus Pigritia rather than Blastobasis (in which the palpi are well developed and clearly visible).
… Terry Harrison, 23 June, 2014 - 1:44pm login or register to post comments

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