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Genus Blastobasis

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Blastobasis glandulella acorn moth - Blastobasis glandulella Acorn Moth - Hodges #1162 - Blastobasis glandulella Acorn Moth - Blastobasis glandulella Blastobasinae - Blastobasis Hodges #1167 Blastobasis pulchella? - Blastobasis pulchella moth - Blastobasis taurusella Moth - Blastobasis glandulella
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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 Blastobasidae (Scavenger Moths)
Subfamily Blastobasinae (Scavenger Moths)
Tribe Blastobasini
Genus Blastobasis

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Blastobasis Zeller, 1855
Epistetus Walsingham, 1894
Prosthesis Walsingham, [1908]
Valentinia Walsingham, 1907
Euresia Dietz, 1910

Numbers

10 named species in North America north of Mexico. (1)

Food

Some are known to feed on scale insects, coccids (B. iceryoella. J. Econom. Entomol.).

Works Cited

1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
Contributed by Tony on 22 April, 2005 - 3:19pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 September, 2017 - 11:48am

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