Pelochrista similiana - Hodges#3116.1

Adult: forewing brown with dark brown L-shaped marking with curved edges, beginning at inner margin in AM area and becoming paler toward center of wing; large faint tooth (sometimes broken) in subterminal area pointing toward anal angle; hindwing dirty white, shading to pale brown toward outer margin Misspelling of the specific epithet as similana may have resulted from confusion with the Palearctic species Eucosma similana (Schiff.), which is now considered a synonym of Epinotia trigonella (Linnaeus 1758), according to these two United Kingdom websites ( 1 , 2 ). The Palearctic Epinotia trigonella (= Eucosma similana ) [ photo 1 , photo 2 ] is obviously a different species than the Nearctic Eucosma similiana As of 2015, the page at BOLD for similiana is composed of two BIN clusters. One of them here is all similiana . The other here has both similiana and dorsisignatana . The specimens identified as dorsisignatana may be misidentified as they are poorly marked. However, the nearest BIN here is composed of only dorsisignatana . The BOLD page for dorsisignatana is also composed of two BIN clusters, the one previously mentioned and another here which mostly contains example which look like the recently described oraria .