Butterflies and Moths of North America

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  Sighting 1278210

White-headed Monopis
Monopis monachella

Observation date: October 22, 2020
Submitted by: reupurtbones
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: None.
Status: Resident
Verified by: rogerdowner
Verified date: October 23, 2020
Coordinator notes: Monopis longella (Walker, 1863), previously treated as a synonym of 0418 Monopis monachella (Hübner, 1796) in Meyrick (1894) and the 1983 Hodges Checklist, is now recognized as a full species and includes as a new synonym 0418.1 Monopis pavlovskii Zagulajev, 1955 in Huang et al. (2011), Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 63(1): 6.
Checklist region(s): United States, Kentucky, Warren County