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Pterophoridae

Plume Moth
MONA#
Family: Pterophoridae

 

   
 
Attributes in General
Classification
KINGDOM: Animalia
PHYLUM: Arthropoda
CLASS: Insecta
ORDER: Lepidoptera
SUPERFAMILY:
FAMILY: Pterophoridae
 
General Species Description
ADULT IDENTIFICATION & WINGSPAN:
ADULT FOOD:
SPECIES RANGE:
ADULT FLIGHT TIME:
HABITAT:
LARVAL IDENTIFICATION & LENGTH:
LARVAL HOST:
LARVAL EMERGENCE (TIME/SEASON):
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FIELD NOTES:

Coll. Date (mm/dd/yyyy)
July 2011
Locality & GPS coords
Nr. Crested Butte, Gunnison Co., Colorado
Elevation (ft)
10,000'
Habitat
mixed aspen/spruce
Host Plant
Aster
Collector(s) Jennifer Bundy
Field observations:
   
   
   
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HABITAT
Mixed aspen/spruce, Nr. Crested Butte, Gunnison Co., Colorado
HOST
Unknown/no photo
 

REARING / LAB NOTES:

Voucher No. ---JLB2011
Found as larva
Food plant used host from habitat
Voucher fate
pinned specimen
Number of days (1st-Ultimate instar)  
Number of days (prepupa)  
Number of days (pupa to eclosion) (eclosed during fall 2011)
Morphology Notes:
Ovum: N/A
Larvae:  
Pupa:  
Cocoon:  
Adult:  
Behavior notes:
Ovum: N/A
Larvae:  
Pupa:  
Cocoon:  
Adult:  
Parasitoids:
Para. lep voucher:  
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Larva
Ultimate stage, lateral