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Canarsia
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Canarsia

Canarsia is a monotypic snout moth genus described by George Duryea Hulst in 1890. Its one species, described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1860, is Canarsia ulmiarrosorella, the elm leaftier moth. It is found in North America including Massachusetts, Alabama and Oklahoma.

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The larvae feed on Ulmus rubra.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Elm Leaftier Moth

speciesCanarsia ulmiarrosorella

Canarsia vittatella

speciesCanarsia vittatella

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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 174518.