Tegeticula mojavella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Prodoxidae
- Genus
- Tegeticula
- Species
- Tegeticula mojavella
- Scientific Name
- Tegeticula mojavella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tegeticula mojavella
Tegeticula mojavella is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. It is found in the United States in the Mojave Desert, from southern Nevada and California south to the Mexican border. The habitat consists of bajadas and lower slopes of open desert.
Its wingspan is 19–24.5 mm.
The larvae feed on Yucca schidigera. They feed on developing seeds.
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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