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Digital Guide to Moth Identification

North American Lepidoptera Genitalia Library

Depressariidae 590160 – 0945 – Nites maculatella (Busck, 1908)

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Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: Identifications often erroneous; DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; many specimens not sequenced. Hodges, R. W., 1974. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 6.2, p. 80; pl. 5.22, 24. order or free PDF Species Page at Block Island Moths Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at iNaturalist U.S. National Entomological Collection (USNM) - Lectotype ♂ (genitalia)

- © JoAnne Russo Collected by Nigel Grindley, Block Island, RI. Det: J.Russo/M.Sabourin "Determining feature is the abdominal sternum and medial pouch; abdomen filled with fungal hyphae which sticks to the bursae as a thin skin, hard to clean off w/o ripping the membrane." - JoAnne Russo (7/17/2019)

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