Conservation Status
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Not of concern.
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Cyclicity
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Adults appear in June.
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Distribution
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Type material is from Victoria, British Columbia. It is recorded for Alberta by Bowman (1951).
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General Description
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"Labial palpi dark fuscous. Face golden fuscous. Tuft on head light reddish yellow, not metallic. Thorax golden fuscous. Forewing unicolored shining golden yellowish fuscous with a slight greenish tint. Hind wings light fuscous with yellowish cilia. Abdomen dark fuscous with yellowish anal tuft. Legs light silvery fuscous ... veins 7 and 8 of forewing stalked (Busck 1921: 280).
In Alberta, similar species include A. abies, A. columbia, A. flexilis and A. mariana in terms of uniform color; otherwise A. monochromella is different from them in strongly yellow head and more golden metallic color of the forewings.
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Habitat
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Chiefly montane.
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Argyresthia monochromella: Brief Summary
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Argyresthia monochromella is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae first described by August Busck in 1921. It is found in Canada in British Columbia and Alberta.
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