Homosetia fasciella

Appearance

Head: Face front white, top of head dark brown, long haired (scaled). Palpi folded, yellowish-white, with long brown scales on underside.
Antenna: Grayish-yellow, ringed (annulated) with brown. Segment 1 entirely dark brown.
Thorax: Dark brown; grayish-white on underside.
Wings: Narrow, dark brown with wide bands of iridescent bluish-white visible only in certain lights. 4 tufts on each wing are partially surrounded with yellowish. Yellow dash at base, along costa. Tip of wing tip has 3 to 4 silvery-white dashes mixed in with the brown fringe, wing tip fringe mostly white.
Hindwing pale brown, brassy; fringe the same.
Legs: Dark brown; segment tips white.
Abdomen: Abdomen dark brown; grayish-white on underside.

Naming

Homosetia bifasciella (Chambers, 1876)
Holotype as Semele bifasciella by Chambers, 1876. Locality: Kentucky. Museum unknown.
Holotype as Homosetia obscurella male by Dietz, 1905 #14945. Locality: Onaga, Kansas. In Museum Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.

Distribution

Eastern half of U.S.; Ontario and Quebec

Behavior

Active April to September

Food

Larvae fed on detritus, fungus, decaying vegetation.