Lesser-known North American Moth Species

In the R. B. Dominick collection at The University of South Carolina

Menesta melanella Murtfeldt (male)

Collected at the Wedge Plantation, Charleston County South Carolina
by Richard B. Dominick
1 July 1975

Family Oecophoridae

Hodges CheckList Number 1031

Photo by John Snyder

(For photos of some other rarely seen species in the Dominick Collection, click HERE)