春天已經到了加州北部和飛蛾都在翼. 我花了一個快速訪問最多的塞拉利昂山麓週末和徒步爬上陡峭的山坡上面的美洲河. Above is pictured Xanthothrix ranunculi f. albipuncta (夜蛾科: 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. 這裡是一個 Xanthothrix sitting on the host.
This moth was originally described as a form of 點¯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. Stay tuned.
