Moths of North Carolina
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Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke, 1832) - Gold-banded Etiella

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Taxonomy
Superfamily:
Pyraloidea		 Family:
Pyralidae		Subfamily:
Phycitinae		Tribe:
Phycitini		P3 Number:
80a0447		 MONA Number:
5744.00
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Beadle and Leckie (2012)Online Resources: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLDTechnical Description, Adults: Neunzig (1996)                                                                                 
Structural photos
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution:
County Map: Clicking on a county returns the records for the species in that county.
Etiella zinckenellaAlamance Alexander Alleghany Anson Ashe Avery Beaufort Bertie Bladen Brunswick Buncombe Burke Cabarrus Caldwell Camden Carteret Caswell Catawba Chatham Cherokee Chowan Clay Cleveland Columbus Craven Cumberland Currituck Dare Davidson Davie Duplin Durham Edgecombe Forsyth Franklin Gaston Gates Graham Granville Greene Guilford Halifax Harnett Haywood Henderson Hertford Hoke Hyde Iredell Jackson Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery Moore Nash New Hanover Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tyrrell Union Vance Wake Warren Washington Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin Yancey
Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

Click on graph to enlarge 		Image showing flight dates by month for High Mountains greater than 4,000 feet, Low Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain: adults.
Habitats and Life History
Habitats: Our one record comes from a site located within a large area of natural sandhills habitat. Although some of the recorded host plants for this species occur in that area, it is not clear whether this species is solely a migrant in our area or associated primarily with croplands.
Larval Host Plants: Larvae feed on a wide variety of legumes, including milkvetch (Astragalus), wild indigo (Baptisia), rattlebox (Crotalaria), Soybean (Glycine max), peas (Lathyrus), lupine (Lupinus), bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus), beans (Phaseolus), locust (Robinia), hoary-pea (Tephrosia), vetch (Vicia), and cowpea (Vigna) (Robinson et al., 2010); a number of other families of plants are also used to some extent. - View
Wikipedia
See also Habitat Account for Loamy, Fire-maintained Herblands
Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status:
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: GNR SNR
State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.
Comments: This is an Old World species that is exotic in North America

 Photo Gallery for Etiella zinckenella - Gold-banded Etiella

Photos: 11
Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: Allison Garton on 2025-09-04
Moore Co.
Comment: 		Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: Allison Garton on 2025-09-04
Moore Co.
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Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: Jim Petranka, Mark Basinger and Becky Elkin on 2025-08-30
Richmond Co.
Comment: 		Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: Jim Petranka, Mark Basinger and Becky Elkin on 2025-08-03
Richmond Co.
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Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: Jim Petranka, Mark Basinger and Becky Elkin on 2025-08-03
Richmond Co.
Comment: 		Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: David George, Jeff Niznik, Rob Van Epps, Kevin Metcalf on 2025-07-20
Richmond Co.
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Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: David George, Jeff Niznik, Rob Van Epps, Kevin Metcalf on 2025-07-20
Richmond Co.
Comment: 		Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: David George, Jeff Niznik on 2025-05-24
Richmond Co.
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Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: David George, Jeff Niznik on 2025-05-24
Richmond Co.
Comment: 		Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: Jim Petranka and John Petranka on 2023-05-18
Scotland Co.
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Etiella zinckenella
Recorded by: J.B. Sullivan on 2020-09-09
Scotland Co.
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