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Pyralidae 80a0071 – 5650   Decaturia pectinalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1912

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Description/ Field Marks: Females were originally describes as having simple antennae. Barnes & Benjamin (1925) explain that this was in error and that they are "... decidedly strongly lamellate, as that term is applied in Lepidoptera : viz., dentate." Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: pectinalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1912 (Decaturia) - MONA 1983: 5650; TL: "San Diego, Calif.; Redington, Ariz.".

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) Barnes, W. & F.H. Benjamin, 1925. A new Pyralid from California, with notes on Decaturia pectinalis B. & McD. (Lepid., Pyralidæ, Macrothecinae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 2(2): 64. Barnes, W.M. & J.H. McDunnough, 1912. Fifty new species; notes on the genus Alpheias. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America, 1(5): 41; pl. 3, fig. 14 Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, Pl. 24.43m; p. 186. Book Review and ordering Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at iNaturalist

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