Lepidoptera36 species

Family Yucca Moths and Allies (Prodoxidae)

Prodoxidae is a family in the order Lepidoptera. Browse 36 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.

Species in Prodoxidae (36)

Greya piperella - Hodges#0189.1

Greya piperella

Identification: Adult - white or cream-coloured in females, sometimes with stamineous tinge in Alberta specimens; with gray tinge in male; numerous fine spots; hindwings gray. Egss - pear-shaped, white, about 0.5 x 0.25 mm in diameter.

Greya politella - Hodges#0194

Greya politella

Identification: Adult - uniformly brownish gray, irrorated with a sparse scattering of somewhat indistinct grayish white scales, sometimes so heavily as to impart a pale bronzy iridescence. Hindwing gray, usually darker than forewing and without pale

Greya subalba - Hodges#0191

Greya subalba

Identification: Braun original description is online in print references.

Greya variabilis - Hodges#0194.2

Greya variabilis

As its specific name suggests, this species demonstrates the greatest variation in maculation of all New World Prodoxidae.

Lampronia aenescens - Hodges#0184

Lampronia aenescens

Identification: The adults are small, slender moths with narrow, pale brown to pale yellow forewings (females lighter) and grey hindwings (Davis 1978, Pellmyr 2000). Antennae 27-28 segmented, ocelli absent, maxillary palpi usually 4-segmented and lab

Raspberry Bud Moth - Hodges#0180.1

Lampronia corticella

Not a native species. Original distribution Europe and Asia. First found in North America in N. Brunswick, Canada in 1936.

Lampronia fuscatella

Wingspan 14-18 mm. A relatively plain blackish moth with a yellow head. Associated with Birch, and most likely to be encountered in areas where Birch is present. The larva feeds within Birch twigs (usually at a node) causing a swelling which sometime

Lampronia morosa

Wingspan about 12 to 15 mm. As the scientific name morosa suggests, the adult moths are rather dingy in colour, with generally just a single faint yellowish dorsal spot, unlike most of the other species in the group which tend to be rather more brigh

Lampronia oregonella - Hodges#0176

Lampronia oregonella

Identification: "Forewing cinnamon brown, with a cream white basal transverse band, a second transverse band on mid wing, and a costal spot that extends about 2/3 across the wing . Hindwing medium gray" .

Prodoxus barberella - Hodges#0210

Prodoxus barberella

Genus Agavenema was synonymized with Prodoxus by Pellmyr et al. 2005

Prodoxus marginatus - Hodges#0205

Prodoxus marginatus

Prodoxus marginatus and P. pulverulentus appear different with the latter having outer half of wings more densely specked with dark scales and a more southernly distribution. Powell & Mackie (1966?) treated P. pulverulentus as a synonym of P. margina

Prodoxus quinquepunctella - Hodges#0200

Prodoxus quinquepunctella

Identification: Forewing variable with up to 18 black spots. Determined by Dr. Olle Pellmyr, specialist in this group at the University of Idaho.

Prodoxus sonorensis - Hodges#0208.2

Prodoxus sonorensis

Identification: Description available at link in citations below.

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Tegeticula intermedius - Hodges#0197.4

Tegeticula intermedius

This species is one of the three Yucca moth species in eastern North American north of Florida, flying with T. yuccasella and Prodoxus decipiens . All three species can be found together in the same Yucca plants. Like P. decipiens , females of this

Tegeticula maculata - Hodges#0197

Tegeticula maculata

Identification: Segraves & Pellmyr (2001) illustrates the wing pattern variations. ( 3 )

Tegeticula yuccasella - Hodges#0198

Tegeticula yuccasella

"Recently the species traditionally called T. yuccasella has been identified as being a complex of at least 13 species, many of which have very distinctive biology. Among them are two non-pollinating species of 'cheater yucca moths'. The reader shoul