Emmelina buscki | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Genus: | Emmelina |
Species: | E. buscki
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Binomial name | |
Emmelina buscki (Barnes & Lindsey, 1921)[1]
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Emmelina buscki is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by William Barnes and Arthur Ward Lindsey in 1921. It is found in North America.[2]
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 gray brown. The hindwings and fringes are gray brown.[3] Adults are on wing in February, August, September and December.[4]
The larvae feed on Ipomoea indica.[5] They skeletonize the young leaves of their host plant.