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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Ethmiinae » Ethmia » bipunctella group (Ethmia bipunctella group) » Viper's Bugloss Moth - Hodges#0986 (Ethmia bipunctella)

Species Ethmia bipunctella - Viper's Bugloss Moth - Hodges#0986

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · 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 Depressariidae
Subfamily Ethmiinae
Genus Ethmia
No Taxon (bipunctella group)
Species bipunctella (Viper's Bugloss Moth - Hodges#0986)
Hodges Number
0986
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
original combination Alucita bipunctella Fabricius, 1775 (1)
synonym Ethmia bipunctella griseicostella Wiltshire, 1947 (1)
Size
forewing length 10 - 14.3 mm, females larger than males (1)
Identification
Adults - see Powell's description (1)
Range
introduced in the 1960's to the New Jersey and Quebec-Ottawa areas (1)
Food
Echium vulgare and Symphytum, Cynoglossum, Anchusa, and Lithospermum (Boraginaceae) (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - species page
Works Cited
1.A systematic monograph of New World ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea).
Jerry A. Powell. 1973. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 120: 1-312.
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 14 April, 2007 - 9:13pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 20 May, 2012 - 7:51pm

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