Glauce pectenalaeella in Dorchester Co., Maryland (5/30/2018). (c) Mark Etheridge, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Glauce pectenalaeella resembles the undescribed species Glauce sp. 1 aff. pectenalaeella and requires examination of a specimen in hand to distinguish. In true pectenalaeella, the male hindwing costa has "a row of widened bristles that change gradually into large scales from the base to the middle" (Chambers 1875, illustration in Busck, 1903). In this undescribed species, the male hindwing has "a black, hair pencil near the base of the costa that extends no more than one third the wing length" (Lee & Brown, 2008). The undescribed species has been confirmed to occur in Maryland.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelechiinae |
| Tribe: | Litini |
| Genus: | Glauce Chambers, 1875[1] |
| Species: | G. pectenalaeella
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| Binomial name | |
| Glauce pectenalaeella Chambers, 1875
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Glauce is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains only one species, Glauce pectenalaeella, which is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.[1][2]
The ground color is pale yellowish, almost entirely obscured by dense fuscous dusting and fuscous spots. The apex of the forewings is more deeply fuscous.[3]
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- ^ a b "Glauce". ftp.funet.fi. Markku Savela. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ "Glauce pectenalaeella". mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu. Mississippi Entomological Museum. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ Can. Ent. 7 (1): 12
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