Ypsolopha delicatella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Ypsolophidae
- Genus
- Ypsolopha
- Species
- Ypsolopha delicatella
- Scientific Name
- Ypsolopha delicatella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ypsolopha delicatella
Ypsolopha delicatella is a moth of the family Ypsolophidae. It is known from the United States, including Arizona and California.
The wingspan is about 17 mm.
The labial palpi are white, the second joint sprinkled with a few black scales on the outside and the terminal joint with a small black spot at the base. The tuft on the second joint is compressed, pointed and longer than the terminal joint. The head and thorax are white. The dorsal half of the forewings from base to tornus is dark reddish-brown, with strong purple reflections, but lighter and more yellowish on the dorsal edge, gradually becoming darker and more purple towards the middle of the wing. Bordering this dorsal part, the edge of which is sharply defined as a straight central line, is a longitudinal pure white streak. Above this, the costal part of the wing is bright golden yellow. The costal yellow part is produced somewhat further out in the apical part of the wing than the darker dorsal color, that stops abruptly at the tornus. The apical part of the wing is white, delicately mottled with black, each scale having a thin curved black edge. The hindwings are light silvery ochreous, but slightly darker, fuscous towards apex. The legs are white, the anterior two pairs mottled with black.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ypsolopha acerella
- Ypsolopha acuminata
- Ypsolopha albiramella
- Ypsolopha albistriata
- Ypsolopha aleutianella
- Ypsolopha alpella
- Ypsolopha amoenella
- Ypsolopha angelicella
- Ypsolopha arizonella
- Ypsolopha asperella
- Ypsolopha atrobrunnella
- Ypsolopha aurata
- Ypsolopha barberella
- Ypsolopha blandella
- Ypsolopha blandellus
- Ypsolopha buscki
- Ypsolopha buszkoi
- Ypsolopha cajaliella
- Ypsolopha canariella
- Ypsolopha cervella
- Ypsolopha chazariella
- Ypsolopha cockerella
- Ypsolopha colleaguella
- Ypsolopha contractella
- Ypsolopha coriacella
- Ypsolopha costibasella
- Ypsolopha cristata
- Ypsolopha delicatella
- Ypsolopha dentella
- Ypsolopha dentiferella
- Ypsolopha desertella
- Ypsolopha distinctata
- Ypsolopha divisella
- Ypsolopha dorsimaculella
- Ypsolopha ephedrella
- Ypsolopha excisella
- Ypsolopha exsularis
- Ypsolopha falcella
- Ypsolopha falciferella
- Ypsolopha flava
- Ypsolopha flavistrigella
- Ypsolopha fractella
- Ypsolopha frustella
- Ypsolopha fujimotoi
- Ypsolopha gerdanella
- Ypsolopha horridella
- Ypsolopha indecorella
- Ypsolopha instabilella
- Ypsolopha japonica
- Ypsolopha kristalleniae
- Ypsolopha leptaula
- Ypsolopha leuconotella
- Ypsolopha longa
- Ypsolopha lucella
- Ypsolopha luehderella
- Ypsolopha lyonothamnae
- Ypsolopha maculatella
- Ypsolopha manniella
- Ypsolopha melanofuscella
- Ypsolopha milfontensis
- Ypsolopha minotaurella
- Ypsolopha mucronella
- Ypsolopha nebulella
- Ypsolopha nella
- Ypsolopha nemorella
- Ypsolopha nigrimaculata
- Ypsolopha nigrofasciata
- Ypsolopha ochrella
- Ypsolopha parallela
- Ypsolopha parenthesella
- Ypsolopha persicella
- Ypsolopha pseudoparallela
- Ypsolopha querciella
- Ypsolopha rhinolophi
- Ypsolopha saitoi
- Ypsolopha sarmaticella
- Ypsolopha satellitella
- Ypsolopha scabrella
- Ypsolopha scenites
- Ypsolopha schwarziella
- Ypsolopha sculpturella
- Ypsolopha semitessella
- Ypsolopha senex
- Ypsolopha seniculella
- Ypsolopha sequella
- Ypsolopha sp-sw
- Ypsolopha straminella
- Ypsolopha striatella
- Ypsolopha strigosa
- Ypsolopha sublucella
- Ypsolopha sylvella
- Ypsolopha tesselatidorsata
- Ypsolopha trichonella
- Ypsolopha tsugae
- Ypsolopha unicipunctella
- Ypsolopha uniformis
- Ypsolopha ustella
- Ypsolopha vintrella
- Ypsolopha vittella
- Ypsolopha walsinghamiella
- Ypsolopha yangi
- Ypsolopha yasudai








