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Female

Spragueia margana (Fabricius)

Pyralis margana Fabricius, 1794, Entomologiae Systematica, 3(2):257.

Grapholita subapicana Walker, 1863, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 28:387.

Agrophila rudisana Walker, 1865, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 33:776.

Spragueia sordida Grote, [1883] 1882, Canad. Ent., 14:217.

Spragueia inornata Grote, 1882, Papilio, 2:183.

Emmelia variegata Möschler, 1890, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 16:156.

Emmelia variegata var. ochracea Möschler, 1890, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 16:156.

Spragueia canofusa Hampson, 1898, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1898:247, pl. 17, fig. 4.

Spragueia tarasca Schaus, 1904, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 30:164.

Diagnosis: Wing length from base to apex in one selected individual 6 mm.

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Foodplants: Spragueia margana has the following foodplants listed: Malvastrum sp. (Malvaceae), Sphaeralcea incana (Malvaceae), and Melochia corchorifolia (Sterculiaceae) (HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants, British Museum of Natural History, 2009).

Distribution map based on specimens in the USNM

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