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Arivaca ostreella

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Arivaca ostreella is a species of snout moth described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887. It is found in the US from southern Arizona through New Mexico to Texas.[3]

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Arivaca ostreella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Arivaca
Species:
A. ostreella
Binomial name
Arivaca ostreella
Synonyms
  • Saluria ostreella Ragonot, 1887
  • Peoria discostrigella Dyar, 1904
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The wingspan is about 25 mm.[4] Adults are on wing in July.

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