Species Apterona helicoidella - Snailcase bagworm - Hodges#438.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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Snailcase bagworm (Apterona helix)? - Apterona helicoidella

Snailcase Bagworm? - Apterona helicoidella

corkscrew-shaped nests - Apterona helicoidella

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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 Psychidae (Bagworm Moths)

Subfamily Oiketicinae

Genus Apterona

Species helicoidella (Snailcase bagworm - Hodges#438.1)

Hodges Number

438.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Apterona helicoidella (Vallot, 1827)

Psyche helicoidella Vallot, 1827

Psyche helix Siebold, 1850

Psyche crenulella Bruand, 1853

Apterona helicoidella f. bisex. crenulella Hättenschwiler, 2004

Remarks

Introduced from Europe in the 1940s.

Apterona helix (Siebold, 1850), referred to as Apterona crenulella (Bruand, 1853) by some authors, has been the name applied to North American specimens of this species. This is treated as a parthenogenetic form of Apterona helicoidella (Vallot, 1827) by the World Catalogue of Insects, Vol. 10: Psychidae (Lepidoptera) (1) and Pohl et al. 2016 (2).

Print References

Bruand, 1853. Mémoires de la Société d'émulation du Doubs. 2(3) 73-76; pl. 2, figs. 48a,48 b, 49 a, 49 b

Davis, D.R. 1964. Bagworm Moths of the Western Hemisphere (Lepidoptera: Psychidae). Bulletin - United States National Museum. 244: 40-44

Hättenschwiler, P. 2004. Acanthopsyche muralis sp. n., ein parthenogenetischer Sackträger aus China und Überblick über die bekannten parthenogenetischen Arten der Psychidae 77 (Apterona helicoidella f. bisex. crenulella)

Sobczyk, 2011: 56 (1)

Wheeler, A.G. & E.R. Hoebeke, 1988. Apterona helix (Lepidoptera: Psychidae), a palearctic bagworm moth in North America: new distribution records, seasonal history, and host plants. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 90(1): 20

Internet References

USDA

Fact Sheet from Penn State

Works Cited

1.	World Catalogue of Insects, Vol. 10: Psychidae (Lepidoptera) Thomas Sobczyk. 2011. Apollo Books.

2.	Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. 2016. ResearchGate.net.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 14 November, 2007 - 2:32pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman, KenW
Last updated 21 May, 2021 - 1:04pm

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