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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Incertae sedis » Psilocorsis

Genus Psilocorsis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Print References · Works Cited
Is this 0884 Agonopterix thelmae or 0955 Psilocorsis quercicella (Oak Leaftier Moth)? - Psilocorsis reflexella Black-fringed Psilocorsis Moth - Psilocorsis cryptolechiella Black-fringed Leaftier Moth - Psilocorsis cryptolechiella unknown moth - Psilocorsis Psilocorsis cryptolechiella Psilocorsis - male Arizona Moth - Psilocorsis cirrhoptera Psilocorsis reflexella
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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
No Taxon (Incertae sedis)
Genus Psilocorsis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Psilocorsis (Clemens, 1860)
Formerly placed in Amphisbatidae; transferred to Depressariidae without subfamily ranking (1)
Print References
Clemens, B., 1860. Contributions to American lepidopterology - no.4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1860: 212
Works Cited
1.Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera)
Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M. and Kaila, L. 2014. Cladistics 30: 563–589.
Contributed by tom murray on 2 September, 2007 - 8:05pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, ceiseman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 26 March, 2016 - 9:00am

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