Bug FAQMusic-loving Moth
Battaristis concinnusella · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Gelechiidae
Adults are ash-grey with a few minute brown spots and distinctive oblique streaks on the forewings. The species is found across a broad area of North America, recorded from several U.S. states and Canadian provinces.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
The forewing shows two short, very oblique dark-brown costal streaks near the middle, followed by a narrow white streak that angles toward the wing tip and meets a dorsal streak, with the apex appearing hoary and bearing a black spot or dash.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
Its native range is North America, recorded in the same list of states and provinces.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 31 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California, Texas, Maryland, Arizona, Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in Canada; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
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- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battaristis_concinusella
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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.