Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Glyphidocerinae
Subfamily Glyphidocerinae
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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
Autostichidae
Subfamily
Glyphidocerinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Glyphidocerinae
Hodges, 1998
*Formerly considered a full family, now treated as a subfamily of Autostichidae
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1
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Numbers
11 species in 1 genus in our area
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2
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Works Cited
1.
Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera)
Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M. and Kaila, L. 2014. Cladistics 30: 563–589.
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Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. 2016. ResearchGate.net.
Contributed by
Kyhl Austin
on 11 May, 2016 - 4:57pm
Last updated 7 January, 2017 - 9:18pm