9. Tripudia rectangula Pogue

(Fig. 29, Map 15)

Identification: Forewing length 6.0-7.0 mm. This is a small moth with a dark gray forewing and a large black quadrate patch on the posterior margin that extends into the middle of the forewing. A small bar of brown dissects the quadrate patch near the apex. Hind wing is gray to dark gray.

MAP 15. Collecting localities of Tripudia rectangula .

Elevation range: 1750 ft. (533 m)

General distribution: An eastern species from Massachusetts to Florida and west to Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

Larval hosts: The only recorded host is wild petunia ( Ruellia sp., Acanthaceae), where larvae bore into the seed (Pogue 2008).