Bug FAQMagician Moth
Hileithia magualis · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Crambidae
The adult’s wingspan measures about 1.5 cm. Adults can be seen flying from early spring through late fall, roughly March to December.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
Wingspan is about 15 mm.
Source: Wikipedia
When you see it
Adults are on wing from March through December.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 14 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arizona, Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
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- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hileithia_magualis
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.