Emmelina buscki explained

Emmelina buscki is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by William Barnes and Arthur Ward Lindsey in 1921. It is found in North America.^[1]

The wingspan is 20–21 mm. Adults are tawny or brownish white, the abdomen with a slight brown dorsal stripe and some brown scales on the sides and below. The forewings are whitish tawny with scattered brown scales forming a dot in the cell and a dash before the cleft which projects toward a costal spot beyond the base of the cleft. The fringes are gray brown. The hindwings and fringes are gray brown.^[2] Adults are on wing in February, August, September and December.^[3]

The larvae feed on Ipomoea indica.^[4] They skeletonize the young leaves of their host plant.

Notes and References

1. http://cro.ots.ac.cr/rdmcnfs/datasets/biblioteca/pdfs/nbina-2580.pdf Neotropical Pterophoridae 8: The genus Adaina Tutt, 1905 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)
2. https://archive.org/stream/contributionston414barn/contributionston414barn_djvu.txt Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America
3. Web site: Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part II. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 85 (2011) . 2011-12-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131016113144/http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/cgi/t/text/get-pdf?c=zoomed%3Bidno%3D8503a01 . 2013-10-16 . dead .
4. http://www.plumemoth.com/Florida%20Pterophoridae.pdf Annotated Checklist of the Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of Florida