Periploca laeta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Cosmopterigidae
- Genus
- Periploca
- Species
- Periploca laeta
- Scientific Name
- Periploca laeta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Periploca laeta
Periploca laeta is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Ronald W. Hodges in 1962. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Quebec and West Virginia.
Adults have been recorded on wing in February and from May to July.
The larvae feed on Juniperus species.
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Sibling Taxa
- Periploca arsa
- Periploca atrata
- Periploca cata
- Periploca ceanothiella
- Periploca darwini
- Periploca dentella
- Periploca devia
- Periploca dipapha
- Periploca facula
- Periploca fessa
- Periploca funebris
- Periploca gleditschiaeella
- Periploca gulosa
- Periploca hortatrix
- Periploca hostiata
- Periploca intermedia
- Periploca juniperi
- Periploca labes
- Periploca laeta
- Periploca longipenis
- Periploca nigra
- Periploca nigrescens
- Periploca opinatrix
- Periploca orichalcella
- Periploca palaearcticella
- Periploca repanda
- Periploca serrulata
- Periploca soror
- Periploca teres
- Periploca tridens