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Eudonia strigalis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ13618353 ↗
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Eudonia strigalis, the striped eudonia moth, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1906. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Nova Scotia to southern Ontario and south to Florida.

The wingspan is 13–17 mm. Adults are on wing year round in the southern part of the range. In the north, adults are on wing from May to September.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eudonia strigalis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.