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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Tineinae » Tinea » Tinea irrepta - Hodges#0399 (Tinea irrepta)

Species Tinea irrepta - Hodges#0399

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References

Tineidae: Tinea apicimaculella? - Tinea irrepta

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Tineoidea (Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths)

Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)

Subfamily Tineinae

Genus Tinea

Species irrepta (Tinea irrepta - Hodges#0399)

Hodges Number

0399

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tinea irrepta – Braun, 1926

Size

7 mm long. Wingspan 14 to 16 mm.

Identification

Head: Orange-yellow, long haired (scaled); some dark at sides. Palpi long, folded; yellowish on tip, dark on underside, scaled.

Antenna: About 2/3 as long as wing. Base half dark, rest lighter, thinly ringed with brown.

Thorax: Tan, small dark spot at tip.

Wings: Tan with dark streak from base to almost mid-wing along costal edge, ending with a small brown spot; another larger spot above. Brown spot on discal cell (about 2/3 from base of wing). Series of brown spots along wing tip edge, ending with larger dark spot at anal angle on inner margin. Fringe very long, tan. Hindwings unknown.

Legs: All segments brownish-tan, tips white. Feet thinly striped with white.

Range

TL: Alberta. Museum unknown.

Western half U.S. and Canada; also northern Ontario (Lake Superior).

Season

June to August.

Food

Debris, fungus, rotting animal and vegetation matter.

Remarks

BOLD:AAC1769 [Transcontinental Canada, northern US]

BOLD:AAC9725 [BC]

BOLD:AAG3617 [SK]

BOLD:ABX5446 [SK]

BOLD:ACT3967 [CO, NM, AZ (mountains)]

Print References

Original Description: Canadian Entomologist, Volume 58 Page 49 by Annette F. Braun.

Internet References

Images and Info at Moth Photographers Group

Images at Barcoding Life

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 14 January, 2015 - 4:40am
Additional contributions by lee_penner, Blocky
Last updated 15 April, 2023 - 12:40am

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