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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) » sistrella complex (Chionodes sistrella complex) » Chionodes kincaidella - Hodges#2086 (Chionodes kincaidella)

Species Chionodes kincaidella - Hodges#2086

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · 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)
No Taxon (sistrella complex)
Species kincaidella (Chionodes kincaidella - Hodges#2086)
Hodges Number
2086
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Chionodes kincaidella (Busck, 1907)
Gelechia kincaidella Busck, 1907
Gnorimoschema laguna Busck, 1912
Gelechia coticola Busck, 1913
Gelechia chloroschema Meyrick, 1923
Gelechia notochlora Meyrick, 1929
Chionodes acanthocarpae Clarke, 1947
Size
Forewing length: 6-11 mm (1).
Identification
A highly variable species (2). See original description in the print references below.
Range
"Southern Alberta to southern California, including San Clemente and Santa Barbara islands, Texas, Sonora, Baja California Sur, Mexico" (1).
Season
MPG records from January to September (3), may be found at different times depending on locality (1).
Food
"Has been reared from Atriplex acanthocarpa in Texas by R. Hitchcock" (1).
Remarks
"The wide distribution and variation in FW color, from dark chocolate brown to rust and pattern especially in the extent of the ochreous, to nearly obliterating the brown, led to five synonyms, unusual for a western Nearctic gelechiid" (1).
Print References
Busck, A. 1907. New American Tineina. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 8 (3-4): 91-92.
Internet References
Species page at Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)
Species page at The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 7.6. Gelechioidea, Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae (part: Chionodes)
Ronald W. Hodges. 1999. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 4 December, 2016 - 12:02am
Last updated 15 January, 2017 - 10:02pm

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