Epermenia imperialella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Epermeniidae
- Genus
- Epermenia
- Species
- Epermenia imperialella
- Scientific Name
- Epermenia imperialella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Epermenia imperialella
Epermenia imperialella is a moth in the family Epermeniidae. It was described by August Busck in 1906. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Manitoba, Alberta, Iowa and Pennsylvania.
The wingspan is 13–18 mm. The forewings are light yellow, overlaid with reddish ochreous on the costal and apical part. On the middle of the wing is an ill-defined broad oblique darker greyish-ochreous fascia, widest at the costal edge, gradually narrowing to the dorsal edge, which it reaches at the basal third. It is there continued into a dark ochreous dorsal scale tuft. The reddish colouration increases in intensity towards the apex. The hindwings are dark bronzy fuscous.
The larvae probably feed on Apiaceae species.
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Sibling Taxa
- Epermenia aarviki
- Epermenia aequidentella
- Epermenia agassizi
- Epermenia albapunctella
- Epermenia albofasciata
- Epermenia anacantha
- Epermenia asiatica
- Epermenia bicornis
- Epermenia brevilineolata
- Epermenia bulbosa
- Epermenia californica
- Epermenia canadensis
- Epermenia chaerophyllella
- Epermenia cicutaella
- Epermenia commonella
- Epermenia conioptila
- Epermenia costomaculata
- Epermenia criticodes
- Epermenia dallastai
- Epermenia devotella
- Epermenia epirrhicna
- Epermenia exilis
- Epermenia falcata
- Epermenia falciformis
- Epermenia farreni
- Epermenia formosa
- Epermenia fuscomaculata
- Epermenia griveaudi
- Epermenia hamata
- Epermenia ijimai
- Epermenia illigerella
- Epermenia imperialella
- Epermenia infracta
- Epermenia iniquella
- Epermenia iniquellus
- Epermenia insecurella
- Epermenia insecurellus
- Epermenia ithycentra
- Epermenia karurucola
- Epermenia kenyacola
- Epermenia larseni
- Epermenia lomatii
- Epermenia maculata
- Epermenia malawica
- Epermenia meyi
- Epermenia mineti
- Epermenia minuta
- Epermenia muraseae
- Epermenia ochreomaculella
- Epermenia ochreomaculellus
- Epermenia ochrodesma
- Epermenia orientalis
- Epermenia oriplanta
- Epermenia ozodes
- Epermenia paramalawica
- Epermenia petrusella
- Epermenia petrusellus
- Epermenia philorites
- Epermenia pimpinella
- Epermenia pontificella
- Epermenia profugella
- Epermenia proserga
- Epermenia pseudofuscomaculata
- Epermenia ruwenzorica
- Epermenia scurella
- Epermenia senaciae
- Epermenia sergei
- Epermenia shimekii
- Epermenia sinjovi
- Epermenia stolidota
- Epermenia strictella
- Epermenia strictellus
- Epermenia sugisimai
- Epermenia symmorias
- Epermenia tenuipennella
- Epermenia thailandica
- Epermenia theimeri
- Epermenia triacuta
- Epermenia turicola
- Epermenia uedai


