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Subfamily Depressariinae

Parsnip Webworm - Depressaria pastinacella

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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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