Arivaca pimella

Arivaca pimella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Arivaca
Species:	A. pimella
Binomial name
	Arivaca pimella; (Dyar, 1906)[1][2][3]
Synonyms
	Poujadia pimella Dyar, 1906;

Arivaca pimella is a species of snout moth described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1906.[1] It is found in the US in southern Arizona.[4]

The length of the forewings is about 13 mm. The forewings are sprinkled with brown and white anterior to the cell. The cell is brownish white. The hindwings are light brown in females and somewhat darker in males.

References

"GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
"Arivaca Shaffer, 1968" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
mothphotographersgroup
Bulletin - United States National Museum

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[Pyraloidea_db-1] "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved June 12, 2017.

[2] "Arivaca Shaffer, 1968" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 12, 2017.

[3] thphotographersgroup

[4] Bulletin - United States National Museum