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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Anacampsinae » Chelariini

Tribe Chelariini

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Please help us to identify this micromoth. - Hypatima

2258.1 - Hypatima sp. 1 - Hypatima sp-one

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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 Gelechiidae (Twirler Moths)

Subfamily Anacampsinae

Tribe Chelariini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chelariini [unknown author, date]

Numbers

4 species in 4 genera in our area (1).

Identification

Four described species in four genera in our area. At least as many undescribed.

Anarsia lineatella

Hypatopa zesticopa complex

Neofaculta infimella

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Prostomeus brunneus

?Hypatima

Remarks

Included by Ponomarenko (2005, 2008a, 2009) in Dichomeridinae, but recent molecular work places it in Anacampsinae (2).

Print References

Ponomarenko, M.G. (2005) Gelechiid moths of the Palaearctic: functional morphology of male genitalia, phylogeny, and taxonomy (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae). Chtenia Pamyati Alexeya Ivanovicha Kurentsova, 58, 1–139.

Ponomarenko, M.G. (2008a) Functional morphology of the male genitalia in Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) and its significance for phylogenetic analysis. Nota Lepidopterologica, 31, 179–198.

Ponomarenko, M.G. (2009) Gelechiid moths of the subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) of the world fauna. Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Vladivostok (in Russian).

Works Cited

1.	Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. 2016. ResearchGate.net.

2.	A molecular analysis of the Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) with an interpretative grouping of its taxa Karsholt, O., M. Mutanen, S. Lee, & L. Kaila. 2013. Systematic Entomology. 38 (2):334–348.

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 11 May, 2016 - 11:01pm
Additional contributions by Blocky
Last updated 8 April, 2020 - 5:06pm

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