Appearance
Adult: forewing dark gray to black with yellowish-brown basal patch that extends about halfway along costa as a tapering streak; median area with several small pale spots and a larger irregular-shaped spot in postmedial area; subterminal line blackish, diffuse, inconspicuous; small pale spot at costa just inside ST line; some specimens have light grayish-brown ground color, rather than dark gray; hindwing whitish or pale gray with broad fringe along inner margin.Naming
Dichomeris costarufoella Chambers, 1874Tricholaphe costarufoella Chambers, 1874
Gelechia costarufoella Chambers, 1874
Distribution
USA: Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, WisconsinCanada: Manitoba
Food
Larvae feed on Rudbeckia species (Family Asteraceae).References:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichomeris_costarufoellahttp://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/large_map.php?hodges=2293
https://bugguide.net/node/view/203434
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Dichomeris-costarufoella