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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Unassigned Ditrysia » Millieriidae » Phormoestes » Phormoestes palmettovora - Hodges#2626.1 (Phormoestes palmettovora)

Species Phormoestes palmettovora - Hodges#2626.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Unknown micro moth in Miami - Phormoestes palmettovora

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

No Taxon (Unassigned Ditrysia)

Family Millieriidae

Genus Phormoestes

Species palmettovora (Phormoestes palmettovora - Hodges#2626.1)

Hodges Number

2626.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phormoestes palmettovora Heppner, 1982 (1)

Explanation of Names

Phormoestes is Greek for "basket dweller," referring to the pupal case (1).

Identification

Very distinctive. See Heppner (1982) (1) for full description.

Range

Florida (1).

Season

March to May (1)

Food

Sabal palmetto (1)

Life Cycle

For a detailed account of life history, biology, and descriptions of the larva and pupa, see Heppner (1982) (1).

Remarks

Recent genetic work suggests that this species belongs to its own family and is not closely related to Choreutidae at all (2) (3) (4) (5).

Internet References

Species page at Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (6)

Species page at The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	Millieriinae: A New Subfamily of Choreutidae, with New Taxa from Chile and the United States (Lepidoptera: Sesioidea) Heppner, John B. 1982. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 370: 1-27.

2.	Elusive ditrysian phylogeny: an account of combining systematized morphology with molecular data (Lepidoptera) Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Wahlberg, N., Sihvonen, P. & Kaila, L. 2015. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 260.

3.	Data partitioning in Bayesian analysis: Molecular phylogenetics of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae) Rota, J. 2011. Systematic Entomology, 36: 317–29.

4.	Note on taxonomic history, thoraco-abdominal articulation, and current placement of Millieriidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) Rota J. & Kristensen N.P. 2011. Zootaxa, 3032: 65-68.

5.	Comprehensive gene and taxon coverage elucidates radiation patterns in moths and butterflies Mutanen M., Wahlberg N., & Kaila L. 2010. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277(1695): 2839–48.

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 11 November, 2015 - 9:09pm
Last updated 11 January, 2017 - 10:50pm

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