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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Stenomatinae » Antaeotricha » Antaeotricha unipunctella - Hodges#1013 (Antaeotricha unipunctella)
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Gelechiidae sp. (possibly) - ID help wanted - Antaeotricha unipunctella - Hodges#1013 - Antaeotricha unipunctella
Copyright © 2014 Glenn Mahler

Gelechiidae sp. (possibly) - ID help wanted - Antaeotricha unipunctella - Hodges#1013 - Antaeotricha unipunctella
Stillwater, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
September 8, 2014
Size: about 6.5mm
It came in to mercury vapor lamp at about 11:00 PM, I suspect this is the correct family and there are several species that look similar (e.g Dichomeris punctidiscella - Spotted Dichomeris) but none of the possibilities I have spotted appear to be dead-on correct.

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Gelechiidae sp. (possibly) - ID help wanted - Antaeotricha unipunctella - Hodges#1013 - Antaeotricha unipunctella Gelechiidae sp. (possibly) - ID help wanted - Antaeotricha unipunctella
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Contributed by Glenn Mahler on 9 September, 2014 - 12:05pm
Last updated 10 September, 2014 - 7:14pm

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… Charley Eiseman, 10 September, 2014 - 7:14pm login or register to post comments

Antaeotricha unipunctella
The forewing is broader and has a more convex costal margin in this moth than in Dichomeris and other Gelechiidae. This moth agrees well with Duckworth's account of Antaeotricha unipunctella (Depressariidae) here.
… Terry Harrison, 9 September, 2014 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Antaeotricha unipunctella
Thank you very much. This ID seems to fit well. I had momentarily looked at that as a possibility when scanning through MPG and BugGuide, but passed over it because the photos there did not seem to show the extremely white face and palps that my individual exhibits and because the NJ/NY/PA area did not have any records shown.

I'm happy now with that ID and thanks for the very fast response to my posting.

Glenn Mahler
… Glenn Mahler, 10 September, 2014 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

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