Bug FAQUntomia albistrigella
Untomia albistrigella · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Gelechiidae
Adults are dark brown with a faint purple, green or bronze tint and have a small white streak on the forewing edge. It lives across many parts of North America, recorded from numerous U.S. states and Ontario, Canada.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
The moth is dark brown, sometimes showing a faint purple, green or bronze hue, with a tiny oblique white streak near the wing tip and pale fuscous fringe marked by a dark line.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it lives
It is found in North America.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 22 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, 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. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
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- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untomia_albistrigella
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