Emmelina buscki
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Emmelina |
| Species: | E. buscki
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| Emmelina buscki (Barnes & Lindsey, 1921)[1]
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Emmelina buscki is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in North America, including Florida and Mexico,[2] but has also been recorded from Costa Rica and Jamaica.
The wingspan is 20–21 mm. Adults are tawny or brownish white, the abdomen with a slight brown dorsal stripe and some brown scales on the sides and below. The forewings are whitish tawny with scattered brown scales forming a dot in the cell and a dash before the cleft which projects toward a costal spot beyond the base of the cleft. The fringes are grey brown. The hindwings and fringes are grey-brown.[3] Adults are on wing in February, August, September and December.[4]
The larvae feed on Ipomoea indica.[5] They skeletonise the young leaves of their host plant.
References
- ^ mothphotographersgroup
- ^ Neotropical Pterophoridae 8: The genus Adaina Tutt, 1905 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)
- ^ Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America
- ^ Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part II. Zool. Med. Leiden 85 (2011)
- ^ Annotated Checklist of the Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of Florida
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