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Ethmia scylla

Wikipedia Abstract

Ethmia scylla is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It is in California, United States. The length of the forewings is 5.8-7.2 mm. The ground color of the forewings is pale grayish brown, clouded and marked by whitish scaling. The ground color of the hindwings is gray-brown. Adults are on wing from late February to early April. The larvae feed on Collinsia heterophylla. They feed in the flowers of their host plant.
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Prey / Diet

Collinsia bicolor (purple Chinese houses)[1]

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1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0