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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Scavenger Moths (Blastobasidae)

Family Blastobasidae - Scavenger Moths

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
A Blastobasinae sp. ? - Asaphocrita aphidiella-complex Calosima dianella Dark Metallic Moth - Blastobasis glandulella NMW2018 Moth #21 - Pigritia nr-murtfeldtella-one Blastobasinae North-central Ohio Moth ID Request. - Asaphocrita aphidiella-complex Blastobasinae? Blastobasis sp. - Blastobasis
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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 Blastobasidae (Scavenger Moths)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly considered a subfamily of Coleophoridae; treated as a full family by Heikkilä et al. (2013)
Explanation of Names
Author: Meyrick, 1894
Numbers
430 spp. worldwide (Heikkilä et al. 2013)
Identification
Remarks
key to genera (1)
Print References
Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M. and Kaila, L. 2013. Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera). Cladistics 1-27. (2)
Works Cited
1.Morphology and systematics of North American Blastobasidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
Adamski, D. & R.L. Brown. 1989. United States Department of Agriculture, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Technical Bulletin, 165: 1-70.
2.Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera)
Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M. and Kaila, L. 2014. Cladistics 30: 563–589.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 26 March, 2014 - 9:20pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Edward Ruden
Last updated 4 February, 2022 - 10:17pm

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