Agonopterix sabulella | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Agonopterix |
Species: | A. sabulella
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Binomial name | |
Agonopterix sabulella (Walsingham, 1881)
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Agonopterix sabulella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1881. [1] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Idaho, Alberta and British Columbia and from Washington to Arizona and California. [2]
The wingspan is 19–23 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, irrorated with fuscous and shaded with reddish scales. There are two fuscous discal spots at the basal third and a fuscous spot at the end of the cell, preceded above by a less conspicuous spot of the same colour. There is a poorly defined fuscous cloud between the outer and inner pairs of spots in costal half of wing and the apical half of the costa and termen have a reddish suffusion. The hindwings are greyish ochreous. [3]
The larvae feed on Eriophyllum confertiflorum, Eriophyllum lanatum and Eriophyllum stachaediflorum. [4] [5]
Agonopterix sabulella | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Agonopterix |
Species: | A. sabulella
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Binomial name | |
Agonopterix sabulella (Walsingham, 1881)
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Synonyms | |
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Agonopterix sabulella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1881. [1] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Idaho, Alberta and British Columbia and from Washington to Arizona and California. [2]
The wingspan is 19–23 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, irrorated with fuscous and shaded with reddish scales. There are two fuscous discal spots at the basal third and a fuscous spot at the end of the cell, preceded above by a less conspicuous spot of the same colour. There is a poorly defined fuscous cloud between the outer and inner pairs of spots in costal half of wing and the apical half of the costa and termen have a reddish suffusion. The hindwings are greyish ochreous. [3]
The larvae feed on Eriophyllum confertiflorum, Eriophyllum lanatum and Eriophyllum stachaediflorum. [4] [5]