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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Flower Moths (Scythrididae) » Arotrura » Arotrura divaricata - Hodges#1657.3 (Arotrura divaricata)

Species Arotrura divaricata - Hodges#1657.3

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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 Scythrididae (Flower Moths)
Genus Arotrura
Species divaricata (Arotrura divaricata - Hodges#1657.3)
Hodges Number
1657.3
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Arotrura divaricata (Braun, 1923)
Scythris divaricata Braun, 1923 (1)
Numbers
There are 10 species of the genus Arotrura in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Braun (1923) listed the wingspan as 14-17 mm. (1)
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the forewing length as 7-11 mm. (3)
Range
California and Nevada to New Mexico; Mexico. (3)
Holotype ♂ collected 4-V-1921, E.P. Van Duzee, Angeles Bay, Lower California, #982 in CAS.
Print References
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler. 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl. 6, fig. 34; p. 79. (3)
Internet References
University of California, Berkeley
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Works Cited
1.Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. The tineid moths
Annette F. Braun. 1923. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 September, 2013 - 10:34am
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 11:44am

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