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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Casebearer Moths (Coleophoridae) » Coleophorinae » Coleophora » Seed Casebearers (Coleophora Seed Casebearers) » Coleophora fagicorticella - Hodges#1380 (Coleophora fagicorticella)

Species Coleophora fagicorticella - Hodges#1380

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

seed casebearer moth - Coleophora fagicorticella

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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 Coleophoridae (Casebearer Moths)

Subfamily Coleophorinae

Genus Coleophora

No Taxon (Seed Casebearers)

Species fagicorticella (Coleophora fagicorticella - Hodges#1380)

Hodges Number

1380

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Coleophora fagicorticella Chambers, 1874 (1)

Coleophora fagicosticella Chamber, 1874 *(spelling correction from original description)(1)

Numbers

Coleophora has more than 158 species in America north of Mexico. (2)

Identification

The original description as Coleophora fagicosticella Chamber, is available online in the print references below.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Genitalia:

Range

Eastern United States and Canada. (2)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults are usually reported from April through July. (2)

Food

Larval host is Juncus L. (rush).

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Chambers, V.T. 1874. Micro- Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist. 6: 129.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	World Catalogue Of Insects: Coleophoridae, Coleophorinae (Lepidoptera) Volume 8 G. Baldizzone, J-F. Landry, H. Van Der Wolf. 2006. Apollo Books.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 January, 2011 - 10:20am
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 2 September, 2023 - 8:19pm

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