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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Burrowing Webworm Moths (Acrolophinae) » Tubeworm Moths (Acrolophus) » Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth - Hodges#0367.1 (Acrolophus mycetophagus)

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

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Acrolophus mycetophagus Moth ID - Acrolophus mycetophagus Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth - Hodges #367.1 - Acrolophus mycetophagus Frilly Grass Tubeworm Moth - Acrolophus mycetophagus Hodges #0367.1 - Frilly Grass Tubeworm Moth - Acrolophus mycetophagus - male Prehistoric looking bug - Acrolophus mycetophagus Frilly Grass-tubeworm Moth – Hodges#0367.1 - Dorsal - Acrolophus mycetophagus Moth to porch light - 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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