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To clarify, this specimen looks like a Coleotechnites to me, not C. continuella

… Paul Dennehy, 12 June, 2020 - 8:01am

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C. continuella

For what it's worth, I've been dissecting a lot of Chionodes the past couple weeks, and I don't think the two live photos on the continuella MPG page are continuella either. I have one definite continuella specimen from Maine, and it has a very white head and no yellowish or brownish scaling; it's very black-and-white. I think Nolie's is C. formosella, and I don't know what the Bob Patterson one is.

… Paul Dennehy, 10 June, 2020 - 7:57pm

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Moved

Moved from Chionodes continuella.
Definitely looks better here.

… tom murray, 10 June, 2020 - 7:52pm

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Coleotechnites

I think that's a better guess too. This doesn't look like a Chionodes to me.

… Paul Dennehy, 10 June, 2020 - 7:51pm

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Coleotechnites sp.?

The way the wings are held and the arrangement of the raised black scales is giving me the impression that this is a Coleotechnites sp. The only thing I could find that seemed close is 1811 – Coleotechnites gibsonella but I'm not even sure it is in Coleotechnites. You might have it correctly ID'd now. There is a lot of variation within species for both genera from what I am finding at BOLD.

… Steve Nanz, 3 December, 2014 - 12:31pm

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