Весна пришла в северной Калифорнии и моли на крыло. Я взял быструю поездку до предгорьях Сьерра в минувшие выходные и путешествовали пешком по крутым склонам над Американ-Ривер. Above is pictured Xanthothrix ranunculi f. albipuncta (Совки: Stiriinae). It happens to be sitting on a beautiful california poppy. The hostplant, однако, является Coreopsis stillmanii and grows in small patches of serpentine soils on southern facing slopes along the central valley. Вот Xanthothrix sitting on the host.
This moth was originally described as a form of Икс. ranunculi в 1925 (form roughly equals subspecies today), and then completely forgotten about and unseen until 1990. It was left out of a major revision of the subfamily, so the legitimate status as a subspecies or full species remains unknown. Следите за обновлениями.
