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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Gelechiinae » Gelechiini » Chionodes » obscurusella group (Chionodes obscurusella group) » trichostola complex (Chionodes trichostola complex) » Chionodes trichostola - Hodges#2120 (Chionodes trichostola)

Species Chionodes trichostola - Hodges#2120

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

#2120 - Chionodes trichostola? - Chionodes trichostola

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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 Gelechiinae

Tribe Gelechiini

Genus Chionodes

No Taxon (obscurusella group)

No Taxon (trichostola complex)

Species trichostola (Chionodes trichostola - Hodges#2120)

Hodges Number

2120

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chionodes trichostola (Meyrick, 1923)

Gelechia trichostola Meyrick, 1923

Size

FW 6-8 mm (1)

Male WS: 19 mm, Female WS: 16mm (2)

Identification

See Meyrick (1923) (2)

Range

BC to southern CA east to UT, CO and central TX (1)

Remarks

Hodge (1999) places this species in the trichostola complex with C. parens and C. sevir. (3)(4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	Exotic Microlepidoptera, volumes 1-5, 1912-1937. (1969 reprint) J. F. Gates Clarke, Edward Meyrick, T. B. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, J. T. Janse. 1969. E. W. Classey Ltd.

3.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 7.6. Gelechioidea, Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae (part: Chionodes) Ronald W. Hodges. 1999. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

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

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 6 June, 2016 - 3:59am

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