Species Diviana eudoreella - Hodges#5929

5929

Diviana eudoreella Ragonot, 1888

Diviana edentella (Hulst, 1890) (1)

Diviana eudoriella Hulst, 1902 (misspelling)

Heinrich (1956) listed the wingspan 16-19 mm. (2)

Hulst (1890) listed a wingspan of 15 mm. (1)

Heinrich (1956) revised description from PDF. (2)

"Forewing blackish brown, the median area heavily dusted with white, giving it an ashy gray appearance; antemedial white line nearly straight, slanting outwardly from costa to inner margin, slightly notched at lower fold, bordered outwardly by a blackish line which expands to a triangular blotch at costa, a similar, somewhat smaller blotch bordering the fine at inner margin; subterminal white line parallel to termen, notched at vein 6 and at lower fold, towards costa bordered inwardly by a fuscous streak; discal dots at end of cell distinct, blackish ; entire outer area between subterminal line and termen blackish brown. Hind wing pale smoky fuscous, with a darker line along termen and some very faint dark shading on the veins. Alar expanse, 16-19 mm."

Specimen determined by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Florida to Texas(4).

Moth Photographers Group map displays a few northern records.(?) (5)

Holotype from "Florida".

A personal observation: There is a very distinctive dark spot on the palps. A. Hendrickson

Blanchard (6), A. & E. Knudson. 1985. New U.S. records and other interesting moths from Texas. Journal of The Lepidopterists' Society 39: 6. (4)

Dyar, H.G., 1902. A list of North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. United States National Museum Bulletin 52: 433.

Heinrich, C., 1956. American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae. United States National Museum Bulletin 207: 207; figs 103, 463. (2)

Hulst, G.D., 1890.The Phycitidæ of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 17(2): 213. (1)

Neunzig, H.H., 2003. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.5. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation: 261; pl. 9, figs. 14-15. (7)

Ragonot, E.L., 1888. Nouv. Gen.: 27.

Moth Photographers Group (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)