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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 » formosella group (Chionodes formosella group) » Chionodes rabula - Hodges#2111.1 (Chionodes rabula)

Species Chionodes rabula - Hodges#2111.1

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

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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 (formosella group)

Species rabula (Chionodes rabula - Hodges#2111.1)

Hodges Number

2111.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chionodes rabula Hodges, 1999 (1)

Explanation of Names

The specific epithet rabula, rabulae is a Latin masculine noun meaning "a wrangling lawyer." (1)

Size

Forewing length: 4.0-6.2 mm. (1)

Identification

"Chionodes rabula can be recognized by the combination of small size and vaguely striate forewing color pattern, particularly the faint, oblique gray fascia at 1/3 the wing length immediately preceded by a pale-yellow area" (1).

Range

Records from Burlington County, New Jersey and Green County, Ohio, south to Dade County, Florida and Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana (1).

Season

Adults have been collected 16 June-25 August in the North, 4 April-7 August in South Carolina, and 2 February-19 September in Florida (1).

Food

Narrow-leaved Cattail (Typha angustifolia) (1).

Internet References

Species page at BOLD Systems - images of pinned DNA supported specimens (2)

Species page at Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

Works Cited

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

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 3 July, 2016 - 2:34pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2
Last updated 1 February, 2019 - 4:04pm

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