Tegeticula carnerosanella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Prodoxidae
- Genus
- Tegeticula
- Species
- Tegeticula carnerosanella
- Scientific Name
- Tegeticula carnerosanella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tegeticula carnerosanella
Tegeticula carnerosanella is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. It is found from western Texas in the United States south to Mexico. The habitat consists of shrub desert.
The wingspan is 20-27.5 mm. Both the forewings and hindwings are white. The larvae feed on Yucca carnerosana and Yucca faxoniana.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Tegeticula altiplanella
- Tegeticula antithetica
- Tegeticula baccatella
- Tegeticula californica
- Tegeticula carnerosanella
- Tegeticula cassandra
- Tegeticula corruptrix
- Tegeticula elatella
- Tegeticula extranea
- Tegeticula intermedius
- Tegeticula maculata
- Tegeticula maderae
- Tegeticula mojavella
- Tegeticula paradoxa
- Tegeticula synthetica
- Tegeticula yuccasella