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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Gelechiinae » Gelechiini » Chionodes » formosella group (Chionodes formosella group) » sistrella complex (Chionodes sistrella complex) » Chionodes sistrella - Hodges#2116 (Chionodes sistrella)

Species Chionodes sistrella - Hodges#2116

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

Chionodes sistrella? - Chionodes sistrella

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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 Gelechiinae

Tribe Gelechiini

Genus Chionodes

No Taxon (formosella group)

No Taxon (sistrella complex)

Species sistrella (Chionodes sistrella - Hodges#2116)

Hodges Number

2116

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chionodes sistrella (Busck)

Orig. Comb: Gelechia sistrella Busck, 1903

Numbers

Over 200 Chionodes species occur in America north of Mexico.

Size

Forewing length 4-6 mm.(1)

Identification

Original description: as Gelechia sistrella Busck (pg. 862)

Range

mostly sw U.S. - Map (MPG)

Lectotype ♂ collected Phoenix, Arizona, in August. (2)

Season

mostly Apr-Aug (MPG)(3)

Food

Larvae have been reared on:(1)

Suaeda (seepweed)

Atriplex semibaccata (Australian saltbush)

See Also

Chionodes pinguicula

Print References

Busck, 1903. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Volume 25, p. (862) (read online or download PDF)

Hodges, R.W., 1999. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.6. p. 93; pl. 1.73.

Powell, J. A., and P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl. 8.39; p. 93.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

University of California, Berkeley

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	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.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 September, 2012 - 4:21pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 9 November, 2015 - 2:55pm

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