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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Dichomeridinae » Helcystogramma » Helcystogramma melantherella - Hodges#2270 (Helcystogramma melantherella)

Species Helcystogramma melantherella - Hodges#2270

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Gelechiidae (Twirler Moths)
Subfamily Dichomeridinae
Genus Helcystogramma
Species melantherella (Helcystogramma melantherella - Hodges#2270)
Hodges Number
2270
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Helcystogramma melantherella (Busck, 1900)
Trichotaphe melantherella Busck 1900 (1)
Size
Wingspan 12.5-13 mm. (1)
Identification
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (2)
Range
North Carolina to Florida and Texas. (3), (4), (5), (6)
Lectotype ♂ collected Palm Beach, Florida. 13-III-1900, Designated by Hodges (1986). (7)
Food
Annual Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), Globe Artichoke (Cynara scolymus), Rough Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium) and other members of the Asteraceae family.
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (8)
Print References
Busck, A. 1900. New species of moths in the superfamily Tineina from Florida. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 23: 232. (1)
Busck, A. 1903. A revision of the American moths of the family Gelechiidae, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25: 911. (9)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (8)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)
Dalton State
Works Cited
1.New species of moths in the superfamily Tineina from Florida.
August Busck. 1900. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 23: 225-254.
2.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
3.Arkansas Lepidoptera Survey
4.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
5.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
6.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
7.Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the NMNH, Smithsonian Institution
Brown, J.W, D. Adamski, R.W. Hodges & S.M. Bahr, II. 2004. Zootaxa 510: 160 pp.
8.North American Moth Photographers Group
9.A revision of the American moths of the family Gelechiidae, with descriptions of new species
August Busck. 1903. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25: 767-938.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 November, 2011 - 2:01pm
Additional contributions by George Smiley
Last updated 17 August, 2019 - 4:11pm

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