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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Eriocraniid Moths (Eriocranioidea) » Eriocraniid Moths (Eriocraniidae) » Eriocraniella » Eriocraniella platyptera - Hodges#0010 (Eriocraniella platyptera)

Species Eriocraniella platyptera - Hodges#0010

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Eriocraniid ex Quercus ilicifolia - Eriocraniella platyptera

Eriocraniella mediabulla #0010 - Eriocraniella platyptera

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Eriocranioidea (Eriocraniid Moths)

Family Eriocraniidae (Eriocraniid Moths)

Genus Eriocraniella

Species platyptera (Eriocraniella platyptera - Hodges#0010)

Hodges Number

0010

Explanation of Names

Author: Davis, 1978

Size

Forewing length 3.0-3.5 mm; wingspan of male = 7-8 mm, female = 8.2 mm (based on the type series of three specimens) (Davis 1978).

Identification

Adult: FW relatively broad and immaculate dark fuscous with a prominent golden brassy to blue green iridescence. HW much paler, grayish fuscous with a slight purplish luster. The scales are moderately broad.(1)

Genitalia:

Range

New York & Massachusetts (Eiseman 2016)

Season

Adults are on wing in May in one generation per year. (1)

Food

Larvae mine leaves of oaks, including Quercus ilicifolia (Eiseman 2016).

See Also

Eriocraniella mediabulla - a southern species, known only from the Gulf Coast states

Print References

Davis, Donald R. 1978. A Revision of the North American Moths of the Superfamily Eriocranioidea with the Proposal of a New Family, Acanthopteroctetidae (Lepidoptera). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 251:1–131.

Eiseman, Charles S. 2016. Notes on the larval hosts and habits of some North American Eriocraniidae and Acanthopteroctetidae. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 70(1):79–81.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – distribution and flight period chart (2)

Wikipedia - brief description (1)

BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (3)

Mass Moths

iNaturalist

Works Cited

1.	Wikipedia

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 January, 2015 - 6:50pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 1 January, 2024 - 4:25pm

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