Ethmia coquillettella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Ethmia |
Species: | E. coquillettella |
Binomial name | |
Ethmia coquillettella | |
Ethmia coquillettella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America along the southern and inner central coast range of California and has also been recorded from interior British Columbia.
The length of the forewings is 6.5–8.4 mm (0.26–0.33 in). The ground color of the forewings (including the fringe) is mouse gray or blackish gray, sparsely to heavily dusted with whitish. There are two pale yellow to yellowish orange marks and some black marks. The ground color of the hindwings is white with a broad black border. Adults are on wing from February to April (in California) and from April to May (in British Columbia). [2]
The larvae feed on Phacelia species, possibly Phacelia distans and Phacelia cicutaria .
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Ethmia lassenella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States in California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
Ethmia scylla is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is in California, United States.
Ethmia brevistriga is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is in California, United States.
Ethmia albistrigella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America from southern British Columbia southward in the Rocky Mountains to south-western Colorado and into the Wasatch Range in northern Utah. On the Pacific coast it ranges through western Washington and Oregon into the mountains of California. Subspecies icariella is an Arctic-Alpine zone race which has only been recorded from California.
Ethmia charybdis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California, United States.
Ethmia nadia is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California.
Ethmia semilugens is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States and Mexico in the arid parts of Colorado through central Texas, New Mexico, northern Chihuahua, Arizona and southern California.
Ethmia epileuca is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States in southern California and Tucson, Arizona.
Ethmia arctostaphylella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States and Mexico from southern Oregon and northern California, southward to the Sierra San Pedro Martir in Baja California and eastward in southern Nevada and Arizona. The range possibly extends northward in Oregon and into Utah following the distribution of its host plants.
Ethmia timberlakei is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in California, United States.
Ethmia semitenebrella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Nuevo León in Mexico to Arizona and southern and eastern California.
Ethmia geranella is a moth in the family Depressariidae first described by William Barnes and August Busck in 1920. It is known only from the United States in the western edge of the Colorado Desert in California's San Diego County and the Ivanpah Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert.
Ethmia macelhosiella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States, including Missouri, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma.
Ethmia discostrigella, the mountain-mahogany moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found from the western United States, south into Mexico.
Ethmia monticola, the gray ethmia moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America from British Columbia and Alberta to California and Arizona, east at least to North Dakota and Colorado.
Ethmia caliginosella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in the United States in high montane Colorado.
Ethmia zelleriella, or Zeller's ethmia moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in eastern North America, from southern Ontario and Quebec through the Ohio Valley and southern Appalachian regions to central Texas.