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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Gelechioidea » Grass Miner Moths (Elachistidae) » Depressariinae

Subfamily Depressariinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification
Poison Hemlock Moth - Agonopterix alstroemeriana Moth 2060 - Agonopterix thelmae Hodges#0916 - Semioscopis aurorella Semioscopis packardella 0911 -- Bog Bibarrambla Moth - Bibarrambla allenella Poison Hemlock Moth - Agonopterix alstroemeriana Agonopterix Microlepidoptera - Agonopterix
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Gelechioidea
Family Elachistidae (Grass Miner Moths)
Subfamily Depressariinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae by some authors
treated as a subfamily of Elachistidae by Hodges in Kristensen (1999), and at All-Leps - which is the classification currently followed at BugGuide
Numbers
all North American genera in this subfamily belong to the tribe Depressariini
97 species in 8 genera in North America listed at All-Leps
Identification
Adult: similar to Concealer Moths (Oecophoridae) - head smooth-scaled; labial palps usually upturned; forewing rather broad, often squarish as in some Tortricid moths, and with the apex and outer margin rounded
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 2 March, 2006 - 11:22am
Last updated 6 March, 2007 - 11:08pm

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