Cahela Moth

Cahela ponderosella

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae

Cahela is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Carl Heinrich in 1939. Its only species, Cahela ponderosella, the cahela moth, described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918, is found in Mexico and in the US states of California, Texas, Arizona, Utah and probably Nevada. Adults are on wing from March to June.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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Cahela Moth

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