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Species Acrolophus mycetophagus - Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth - Hodges#0367.1

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Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth - Hodges #367.1 - Acrolophus mycetophagus Unidentified Moth - Acrolophus mycetophagus - female Acrolophus mycetophagus Moth - Acrolophus mycetophagus Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth - Hodges #367.1 - Acrolophus mycetophagus Texas SE Gulf Coast - Acrolophus mycetophagus Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth - Hodges#0367.1 - Dorsal - Acrolophus mycetophagus Acrolophus mycetophagus ? - Acrolophus mycetophagus
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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Tineoidea (Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths)
Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)
Subfamily Acrolophinae (Burrowing Webworm Moths)
Genus Acrolophus (Tubeworm Moths)
Species mycetophagus (Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth - Hodges#0367.1)

Hodges Number

0367.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acrolophus mycetophagus Davis, 1990 (1)

Explanation of Names

mycetophagus means "fungi-eating" or "mushroom-eating", refering to the larval diet. (1)

Size

Davis (1990) listed the forewing length. (1)
♂ 5-8 mm.
♀ 8-11 mm.

Identification

Adult: forewing white with band of dark scales across median area, and diffuse dark scaling in subterminal area; hindwing dark brownish-gray; head may or may not be covered with very long white hair-like scales

Range

South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas. (2), (3), (4), (1)
Holotype ♂ 7 mi. NE Fargo, Cinch County, Georgia, 6 May 1981, D.C. Ferguson [USNM}. (1)

Season

Davis (1990) most adults were captured between mid-February and mid-June. A second flight in early August to late September. (1)

Food

Davis (1990) listed the larval host as bracket fungus. (1)

Print References

Davis, D.R. 1990. Three New Species of Acrolophus from the Southeastern United States with remarks on the status of the family Acrolophidae (Lepidoptera: Tineodea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 92(4): 702, figs.4-6, 18-22. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
pinned adult images by Robert Patterson (Moth Photographers Group)
presence in South Carolina; list (John Snyder, Furman U., South Carolina)

Works Cited

1.Three new species of Acrolophus from the southeastern United States , with remarks on the status of the .....
D. R. Davis. 1990. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 92(4): 694-704.
2.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
3.South Carolina Moth Species
4.Acrolophus mycetophagus (Davis) 1990 (Lepidoptera: Acrolophidae) in Louisiana
Vernon Antoine Brou Jr. 2008. Southern Lepidopterists' News, 30: 59.
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 18 April, 2007 - 2:55pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 17 April, 2014 - 12:45pm

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