Agonopterix sabulella

Agonopterix sabulella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Agonopterix
Species: A. sabulella
Binomial name
Agonopterix sabulella
(Walsingham, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Depressaria sabulella Walsingham, 1881
  • Agonopteryx callosella Barnes & Busck, 1920

Agonopterix sabulella is a moth in the Depressariidae family. 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]

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