SBBG Lompoc SWP Floral Visitor Guide

A guide of all the insects we have seen visiting plants or seen in the area. 2020-2022 updated.

Ethmia

Ethmia is a large genus of small moths. It is the type genus of the gelechioid family Ethmiidae, which is sometimes included in Elachistidae or Oecophoridae as subfamily.

Ethmia arctostaphylella is a moth in the Ethmiidae family. It is found from southern Oregon and northern California, southward to the Sierra San Pedro Martir in Baja California and eastward in southern Nevada (Mount Charleston) and Arizona (the Pinaleno Mountains and Oak Creek Canyon). The range possibly extends northward in Oregon and into Utah following the distribution of its ...more ↓