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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Grass Miner Moths (Elachistidae) » Elachistinae » Perittia » Perittia cygnodiella - Hodges#1077 (Perittia cygnodiella)

Species Perittia cygnodiella - Hodges#1077

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · Print References · 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 Elachistidae (Grass Miner Moths)
Subfamily Elachistinae
Genus Perittia
Species cygnodiella (Perittia cygnodiella - Hodges#1077)
Hodges Number
1077
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Perittia cygnodiella (Busck, 1921)
Aphelosetia cygnodiella Busck, 1921
Onceroptila cygnodiella (11)
Size
Forewing length 3.5-5.5 mm (1)
Wingspan 9-11 mm (2)
Range
Alberta and British Columbia to central California. (3)
Food
Larvae mine the leaves of deciduous snowberry (Symphoricarpos). (3)
Print References
Busck, A. 1921. Microlepidoptera from British Columbia. The Canadian Entomologist 53(12): 280
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Works Cited
1.A revision of the North American Perittia (=Onceroptila), with first nearctic records of the genus Mendesia (Elachistidae)
Lauri Kaila. 1995. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 49(3): 208-222.
2.Elachistidae of North America (Microlepidoptera)
Annette F. Braun. 1948. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 13: 1-110, pl. 1-26.
3.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 15 January, 2015 - 7:07am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 17 September, 2017 - 9:37am

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