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Beautiful Dafa Moth
Dafa formosella
Epicallima formosella is a species of gelechioid moth. It belongs to subfamily Oecophorinae of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). In modern schemes, it can be placed in the monotypic genus Dafa Hodges, 1974, as Dafa formosella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775).
It is found in Europe and introduced to North America The wingspan is 12–16 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August depending on the location.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 554233.