Argyresthia furcatella

Argyresthia furcatella is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae. It is found in North America, including Colorado.

Argyresthia furcatella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Argyresthiidae
Genus: Argyresthia
Species:
A. furcatella
Binomial name
Argyresthia furcatella
Busck, 1916[1]

The wingspan is 12–13 mm. The forewings are white, sprinkled with dark brown transverse reticulations especially toward the apex. From the middle of the dorsum runs an ill-defined outwardly oblique, dark brown fascia to beyond the end of the cell. There is a small round dark brown spot on the fold between this and the base and a series of dark brown marginal spots begin on the middle of the costa and reach round to the tornus. The hindwings are ochreous fuscous.[2]

The larvae feed on Quercus species.[3] The species was reared from a cynipid gall on oak.

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