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Genus Phaecasiophora

Phaecasiophora niveiguttana - Labyrinth Moth (??) - Phaecasiophora niveiguttana

Labyrinth Moth? - Phaecasiophora niveiguttana

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Tortricoidea (Tortricid Moths)

Family Tortricidae (Tortricid Moths)

Subfamily Olethreutinae

Tribe Olethreutini

Genus Phaecasiophora

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phaecasiophora Grote, 1873 (1)

Explanation of Names

Generic epithet from Greek φαικάσιον (wiktionary) meaning "bearing white shoes." Grote notes that unlike Penthina the hind tibia "is covered with long and coarse scales standing out from it and, in mutabilana, from their white color, giving the tibiae the appearance of being wrapped in wool or cotton." (1)

Range

Represented throughout North America, temperate eastern Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan) and tropical southeast Asia.

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1873. VI. Contributions to a knowledge of North American moths. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 1: 90. (1)

Internet References

Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841-1903)

Works Cited

1.	VI. Contributions to a knowledge of North American moths. Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1873. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 1: 73-94.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 March, 2005 - 10:04am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 8 January, 2018 - 11:27am

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