Moths of North Carolina
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15 NC Records

Scardia anatomella (Grote, 1881) - No Common Name

Taxonomy
Superfamily: Tineoidea Family: TineidaeSubfamily: ScardiinaeTribe: [Scardiini]P3 Number: 300203.00 MONA Number: 311.00
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Leckie and Beadle (2018)Online Photographs: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLDTechnical Description, Adults: Robinson (1986)                                                                                 
Adult Markings: The following description is based on the description by Dietz (1905). The antenna is dark brown, and the head is ocherous, with pale fuscous on the sides. The labial palp is dark brown with pale ocherous at the base and terminus of the second and third joints. The thorax is dark brown anteriorly and mixed with ocherous posteriorly. The posterior part of patagia is pale yellow. The forewing is rounded at the apex and deep brown to blackish. There are four pale spots on the costal margin that are often H-shaped. Two are before the middle and two after, and the last one is reduced in size. The terminal part of wing has a large, irregular pale patch with dark, transverse strigulae. The dorsal margin has a pale, irregular longitudinal band that bulges inward just before the middle, at the anal angle, and at the beginning of the dorsal cilia. The band has fine dark brown to blackish lines, and the bulges at the middle and the beginning of the cilia each contain a distinct, dark spot. The cilia are pale yellow. They have a dark dividing line about the middle, and are transversed by several dark bars. The hindwing is grayish fuscous. The anterior and middle legs are dark brown, with the apex of the tibial and tarsal joints banded with pale yellow. The hindleg is similar but paler. A few other species superficially resemble S. anatomella in terms of having dark forewings with a wavy whitish band on the inner margin (e.g., Monopis dorsistrigella; Chimoptesis pennsylvaniana). These, however, lacks the cream-colored sub-terminal patch and the H-shaped marks along the costa.
Wingspan: 25-26 mm (Dietz, 1905); 20-34 mm (Robinson, 1986).
Adult Structural Features: Robinson (1986) has descriptions and illustrations of the male and female genitalia.
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Immatures and Development: The larval life history is poorly documented. Walsingham (1882) found larvae that were boring round holes in a fallen pine tree in Oregon. Adults were reared from larvae that were collected in March. Other than this brief note, we know little about the larval ecology.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution: Scardia anatomella is primarily found in the eastern US, with a few widely scattered populations reported from the West in Washington, Oregon, Utah, California, and Arizona. In the East, populations occur in extreme southern Canada and the New England states southward to northern Florida. The range extends westward to eastern Texas, Arkansas, western Tennessee, Illinois, and Minnesota. As of 2020, most of our records are from the mountains and foothills, with only two isolated records from farther east in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain.
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Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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