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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) » Nemapogoninae » Nemapogon » Nemapogon multistriatella - Hodges#0269 (Nemapogon multistriatella)

Species Nemapogon multistriatella - Hodges#0269

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

- Hodges#0269 - Nemapogon multistriatella

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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 Nemapogoninae

Genus Nemapogon

Species multistriatella (Nemapogon multistriatella - Hodges#0269)

Hodges Number

0269

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tinea multistriatella Dietz, 1905

Size

8 to 10 mm long. Wingspan 16 to 17 mm.

Identification

Head: Top of head has long haired (scaled) white with brown mixed in at center. Front of face is whitish, hair flattened. Palpi long, folded; yellowish-white, underside brown.

Antenna: Short, about half the wing length; somewhat thickened, brown on top, paler on underside. Segment 1 white.

Thorax: White, intermixed with brown.

Wings: White speckled with brown and with dark brown longitudinal lines and blocks. Fringe checkered, matching wing color; brown dots intermixed and a brown streak or stripe about mid-way on long fringe. Hindwings pale grayish, brown speckled.

Legs: Legs whitish, speckled with brown. Feet striped brown and white.

Abdomen: Yellowish-brown on top side, reddish-yellow on underside.

Range

Eastern half of U.S., Oklahoma; Ontario & Quebec

Habitat

Deciduous forests.

Season

April, May; again in August.

Food

Bracket fungus

Life Cycle

Two generations per year. Bred from bracket fungi on beech stumps.

Remarks

Types:

Syntype Tinea multistriatella female by Dietz, 1905. MCZ#2878. Locality: Toronto, Ontario. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. Lacks location label.

Syntype Tinea multistriatella female by Dietz, 1905. Locality: Plummer’s Island, Maryland. In the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Internet References

Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1905, Vol. 31, pg.59 by Dietz.

Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1923, Memoir #68 by Forbes, pg. 128.

Bulletin of the Museum Comparative Zoology, 1989-92, Vol. 152, pg. 53: MCZ Microlepidoptera Types by Miller and Hodges

Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 November, 2009 - 9:42am
Additional contributions by lee_penner
Last updated 3 February, 2016 - 11:19pm

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