Ypsolopha rubrella

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| taxon = Ypsolopha rubrella

| authority = (Dyar, 1902)[http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/lepid/lepr-z.htm nearctica] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114170817/http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/lepid/lepr-z.htm |date=January 14, 2011 }}

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  • Cerostoma rubrella Dyar, 1902

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Ypsolopha rubrella is a moth of the family Ypsolophidae. It is found in the United States from California east to Colorado and Oklahoma.[http://bugguide.net/node/view/465750 Bug Guide]

The wingspan is about 18 mm.[http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=2391 mothphotographersgroup]

The larvae feed on Berberis repens in Colorado and Berberis nervosa in coastal California.

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