Eriocrania breviapex: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Eriocraniidae
- Genus
- Eriocrania
- Species
- Eriocrania breviapex
- Scientific Name
- Eriocrania breviapex
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Eriocrania breviapex
Eriocrania breviapex is a moth of the family Eriocraniidae. It is found in the Cayuga Lake Basin of north-western New York.
The wingspan is 7.5–9 mm. The forewings are light fuscous with a slight bronze to purplish iridescence, irregularly marked with small pale golden to brassy spots. The hindwings are paler than the forewings and sparsely scaled with long, slender, hairlike brownish-fuscous scales. Adults are on wing from early to mid May in one generation per year.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Eriocrania alpinella
- Eriocrania breviapex
- Eriocrania carpinella
- Eriocrania chrysolepidella
- Eriocrania cicatricella
- Eriocrania cyanosparsella
- Eriocrania komaii
- Eriocrania sakhalinella
- Eriocrania salopiella
- Eriocrania sangii
- Eriocrania semipurpurella
- Eriocrania sparrmannella
- Eriocrania unimaculella
- Eriocrania ussuriella