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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Pterolonchidae » Homaledra » Palm Leaf Skeletonizer - Hodges#1422 (Homaledra sabalella)

Species Homaledra sabalella - Palm Leaf Skeletonizer - Hodges#1422

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Palm Leaf Skeletonizer - Homaledra sabalella

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Palm Leaf Skeletonizer Moth - Homaledra sabalella

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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 Pterolonchidae

Genus Homaledra

Species sabalella (Palm Leaf Skeletonizer - Hodges#1422)

Hodges Number

1422

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homaledra sabalella (Chambers, 1880)

Laverna sabalella Chambers, 1880

* phylogenetic sequence #041775

Size

Wingspan about 18 mm.

Larva to 12 mm. (1)

Range

Heppner (2003) listed the range as South Carolina to Florida, Mississippi to Texas. (2)

Season

Heppner (2003) reported adults in Florida from January to September. (2)

Food

(3)

Life Cycle

Eggs are laid in masses on the interleaf husks. There are no hibernation stages.(4)

Can be up 5 generations per year.(4)

Palm Leaf Skeletonizer life cycle photos:

1.leaf damage 2.larva 3.larva 4.frass covered cocoons 5.adult

Remarks

The chalcid wasp Horismenus ignotus is likely the primary pasasite of the larva. (76)

Print References

Chambers, V.T. 1880. Descriptions of some new Tineina, with notes on a few old species. The Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 2(4): 185-186

Comstock, J.H. 1949. An introduction to entomology (9th edition). Comstock Publishing Company, Inc. p.629 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

USDA

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	An Introduction to Entomology John Henry Comstock. 1933. The Comstock publishing Co.

2.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

3.	Palm Leaf Skeletonizer Homaledra sabalella (Chambers) (Momphidae-Lepidoptera) G.W. Dekle. 1969. Florida Dept. Ag. Entomology Circular 90: 1-2.

4.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 31 October, 2006 - 9:30pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, Marci Hess
Last updated 30 August, 2023 - 3:33pm

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