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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
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Subfamily Depressariinae

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
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