WWW MPG website only

Digital Guide to Moth Identification

51a1082.11n – 3186.1   Epiblema vargoana Wright, 2024

Photographs are the copyrighted property of each photographer listed. Contact individual photographers for permission to use for any purpose.

[T] LG - (cc) Russell Pfau Large Map & Chart Report Errors About Maps

Distribution: USA: OK, TX panhandle. Similar Species: Epiblema scudderiana (Clemens, 1860) Epiblema benignata McDunnough, 1925 Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: vargoana Wright, 2024 (Epiblema) - MONA 1983: 3186   Type locality: Holotype: Black Kettle National Grassland, Croton Lake NA, Roger Mills Co., OK, 2000 ft. Taxonomic Notes: Epiblema vargoana Wright, 2024, n. sp., Jour. Lepid. Soc., 78(4): 256; figs. 10-11, 18a-f.

References

Wright, D.J., 2024. Four New Nearctic Eucosmini (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) and an update on Eucosma southamptonensis (Heinrich). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 78(4): 253-260.

[T] LG - (cc) Russell Pfau [T] DNA - LG - © Mark Dreiling

- 16mm - holotype - LG – © Jim Vargo

Moth Photographers Group  at the  Mississippi Entomological Museum  at the  Mississippi State University

Send suggestions, or submit photographs to Webmaster — Moth Photographers Group

Database design and scripting support provided by Mike Boone