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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Nemapogoninae » Nemapogon » Nemapogon oregonella - Hodges#0271 (Nemapogon oregonella)

Species Nemapogon oregonella - Hodges#0271

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Unident and to remain so untill someone names it..Ken, BP, and i were unable to id - Nemapogon oregonella Unident and to remain so untill someone names it..Ken, BP, and i were unable to id - Nemapogon oregonella
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Tineoidea (Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths)
Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)
Subfamily Nemapogoninae
Genus Nemapogon
Species oregonella (Nemapogon oregonella - Hodges#0271)
Hodges Number
0271
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Nemapogon oregonella (Busck, 1900)
Identification
"Nemapogon oregonella has a silvery white forewing with longitudinal rust streaks" (1).
Range
California and Oregon (1).
Season
MPG records from May, July, and September (2).
Food
Appears to be a specialist on Postia amara [=Polyporus amarus] fungus on incense cedar (Calocedrus) (1).
Internet References
Species page at Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)
Species page at The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 6 December, 2016 - 1:55am
Last updated 9 January, 2017 - 12:46am

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