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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) » Tineinae » Elatobia » Elatobia carbonella - Hodges#0425 (Elatobia carbonella)

Species Elatobia carbonella - Hodges#0425

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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 Tineinae
Genus Elatobia
Species carbonella (Elatobia carbonella - Hodges#0425)
Hodges Number
0425
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Elatobia carbonella (Dietz, 1905)
Abacobia carbonella Dietz, 1905
Elatobia fuliginosella of authors (not Lienig & Zeller, 1846)
Explanation of Names
Elatobia carbonella (Dietz, 1905) was formerly treated as a synonym of Elatobia fuliginosella (Lienig & Zeller, 1846) in Gaedike (2019). Hayden (2022) treats carbonella as a full species based on genitalic dissection. This conclusion appears to be supported by DNA barcode and is followed herein.
Size
FWL: 6 to 8 mm (1).
Identification
See original description in print references below (2).
Range
Canada: QC, SK, YT, BC (BOLD; USA: PA, FL.
Type locality: Hazleton, PA.
Habitat
This species is more numerous in years following fires in coniferous forests (1).
Season
Records from April to August (1).
Food
Larvae seem to live in close association with Cryptoporus (=Polyporus) volvatus fungus which grows on dead conifers (1).
See Also
Elatobia montelliella (Schantz, 1951) - Dissection and/or DNA needed. Canada: AB; USA: UT.
  • Elatobia sp. 1 (BIN BOLD:AAG0124) - Dissection and/or DNA needed. Canada: BC; USA: WA, AZ.
  • Elatobia sp. 2 (BIN BOLD:AAH5443) - Dissection and/or DNA needed. CO, NM.
    • Print References
    Dietz, W.G. 1905. "Revision of the Genera and Species of the Tineid Subfamilies Amydriinae and Tineinae Inhabiting North America". Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 31: 30, pl. 5 fig. 1, pl. 6 fig. 9 (2).
    Gaedike, R., 2019. Tineidae II (Myrmecozelinae, Perissomasticinae, Tineinae, Hieroxestinae, Teichobiinae and Stathmopolitinae). Microlepidoptera of Europe, 9: XXIV + 248 pp., 6 pls..
    Internet References
    Species page at Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)
    Species page at The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
    Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN BOLD:AAI6159 (true carbonella) (4)
    Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN BOLD:AAG0124 (Elatobia sp. 1) (4)
    Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN BOLD:AAH5443 (Elatobia sp. 2) (4)
    Works Cited
    1.Moths of Western North America
    Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
    2.Revision of the genera and species of the tineid subfamilies Amydriinae and Tineinae inhabiting North America
    Wm. G. Dietz. 1905. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 31: 1-96.
    3.North American Moth Photographers Group
    4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
    Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 12 July, 2017 - 7:11pm
    Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
    Last updated 27 February, 2023 - 11:13am

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