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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Ethmiinae » Ethmia » trifurcella group (Ethmia trifurcella group) » Ethmia albicostella - Hodges#1001 (Ethmia albicostella)

Species Ethmia albicostella - Hodges#1001

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Ethmia albicostella - Hodges #1001 - Ethmia albicostella

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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 Depressariidae

Subfamily Ethmiinae

Genus Ethmia

No Taxon (trifurcella group)

Species albicostella (Ethmia albicostella - Hodges#1001)

Hodges Number

1001

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ethmia albicostella (Beutenmüller, 1889)

Psecadia albicostella Beutenmüller, 1889

Anesychia mirusella Chambers, 1877

Ethmia mirusella Dyar, 1902

Ethmia mirella Meyrick, 1914

Size

Forewing length: 10.5-13.2 mm (1).

Identification

"Narrow forewings which are evenly divided by a straight, longitudinal line, brownish gray on costal, white on dorsal half" (1).

Range

"Southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana (Bozeman) through the southern Rocky Mountain states at moderately high elevations (mostly 7,000-8,000 feet) and mountains of western Mexico at least to Durango (25 mi W. Durango, 8,100 feet)" (1).

Season

Mid-June to early August (1).

Food

Puccoons (Lithospermum spp.) in Wyoming (A.F. Braun) (1).

See Also

[url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/336989]Ethmia mirusella is very similar, but is found in Great Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, to central and western Texas. (1)

Print References

Beutenmüller, W. 1889. On North American Tineidae. Entomologica Americana. 5: 9.

Internet References

Species page at Moths of North Daokota (2)

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	A systematic monograph of New World ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Jerry A. Powell. 1973. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 120: 1-312.

2.	North Dakota State University - Entomology

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 4 December, 2016 - 12:04am
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 2 December, 2023 - 12:59pm

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