Grape Flower Plume Moth - Hodges#6090

See the identification key for Oxyptilini . See the species accounts in Landry , Landry , and McDunnough as Pterophorus ontario . Sphenarches ontario adults have: a forewing second lobe that is broader with a well developed, curved outer margin, as in Sphenarches anisodactylus , Geina , Capperia , and Oxyptilus , rather than narrow with an acute apex, as in Buckleria , Dejongia , Trichoptilus , and Megalorhipida . a brown and unmarked abdominal segment four, as in Geina , and unlike in Capperia and Oxyptilus . a mostly brown metathorax, as in Geina periscelidactylus and G. sheppardi , rather than the metathorax having large, white lateral patches, as in Geina tenuidactylus and G. buscki , or having white lines on the metathorax and and on the mesothorax connecting the white tegulae, as in Sphenarches anisodactylus , Oxyptilus delawaricus , and Capperia . tawny brown ground color in the wings and abdomen, as in Geina periscleidactylus and G. sheppardi and Oxyptilus delawaricus , unlike the darker, chocolate brown ground color of Geina tenuidactylus , G. buscki , and Capperia . a dark triangular patch before the cleft base, unlike the dark, transverse line before the cleft base in Geina periscelidactylus and G. sheppardi . a dark scale tooth well developed in both the costal and dorsal fringes of the hindwing third lobe, as in Geina , and unlike in Sphenarches anisodactylus (dark scale tooth developed mostly in dorsal fringe).