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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Ethmiinae » Ethmia » hagenella group (Ethmia hagenella group) » Zeller's Ethmia Moth - Hodges#0992 (Ethmia zelleriella)

Species Ethmia zelleriella - Zeller's Ethmia Moth - Hodges#0992

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited

992 Zeller's Ethmia - Ethmia zelleriella

Elachistidae: Ethmia zelleriella? - Ethmia zelleriella

Zeller's Ethmia Moth - Ethmia zelleriella

Ethmia zelleriella (Zeller's Ethmia Moth) - Ethmia zelleriella

Depressariidae, Zeller's Ethmia Moth, dorsal - Ethmia zelleriella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Gelechioidea (Twirler Moths and kin)

Family Depressariidae

Subfamily Ethmiinae

Genus Ethmia

No Taxon (hagenella group)

Species zelleriella (Zeller's Ethmia Moth - Hodges#0992)

Hodges Number

0992

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ethmia zelleriella (Chambers, 1878)

Hyponomeuta zelleriella Chambers, 1878

Explanation of Names

Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808 - 1883), a German entomologist - Wikipedia

Numbers

46 spp in genus per Arnett (1985) (1)

Size

FWL: 10.4 - 12 mm (2)

WS ≈ 23 mm (based on photo by Jim Vargo at MPG)

Identification

Adult: FW ground color white, dusted with gray along the costa to the midcell. There is a series of elongated black spots more or less evenly distributed over the wing. HW ground color white basally, becoming pale brownish in the apical area. (2)

Range

eastern North America, from southern Ontario and Quebec through the Ohio Valley and southern Appalachian regions to central Texas. - Map (3)

Season

Adults are on wing Mar-Sept (3)

Food

Larvae feed on Phacelia species, including Phacelia dubia and Phacelia bipinnatifida. They feed freely, without a web, boring into pieces of corky bark of a tree to pupate. (2)

Life Cycle

There are probably two generations per year (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – MPG (3)

BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (4)

Wikipedia (2)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	Wikipedia

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 13 January, 2008 - 11:53pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 22 November, 2020 - 3:41pm

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