Common name: listed here as ‘Leach’s
grass-veneer.’
Hodges number: 5357.
Identification: Rfw 11.3 mm, fw silver stripe broader at base
than dark area above it, subterminal area paler than median area,
usually with five black dashes; male
with gnathos slightly attenuate from base to apex.
Similar species: 5344, 5354,
5355, see also 5378, 3149,
3014, 3035.
Distribution: Southern Canada to northern Mexico.
Hosts: larvae feed on Poaceae– grasses.
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ND, Richland Co., sandhills, 1- IX- 1966, coll. G. Mauston.
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