春天已经到了加州北部和飞蛾都在翼. 我花了一个快速访问到塞拉利昂山麓周末和徒步爬上陡峭的山坡上面的美洲河. Above is pictured Xanthothrix ranunculi f. albipuncta (滑动: Stiriinae). It happens to be sitting on a beautiful california poppy. The hostplant, 然而, 是 Coreopsis stillmanii and grows in small patches of serpentine soils on southern facing slopes along the central valley. 这里是一个 Xanthothrix sitting on the host.
This moth was originally described as a form of X. ranunculi 在 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. 敬请关注.
