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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Eriocraniid Moths (Eriocranioidea) » Eriocraniid Moths (Eriocraniidae) » Eriocrania » Purplish Birch-miner Moth - Hodges#0005 (Eriocrania semipurpurella)

Species Eriocrania semipurpurella - Purplish Birch-miner Moth - Hodges#0005

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Eriocranioidea (Eriocraniid Moths)
Family Eriocraniidae (Eriocraniid Moths)
Genus Eriocrania
Species semipurpurella (Purplish Birch-miner Moth - Hodges#0005)
Hodges Number
0005
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eriocrania semipurpurella (Stephens, 1835)
Lampronia semipurpurella Stephens, 1835
Size
Forewing length 4.5 - 6.5 mm (1)
Wingspan 10-16mm (2)
Identification
Adults - sparsely scaled with dark reflecting brassy to purplish, and obscure silvery spots distally on the costa and at the tornus, extended through the fringe (1)
Range
widespread in the northeastern US, southern Canada and along the Pacific Coast from Alaska near Anchorage to Puget Sound, and the San Bruno Mountains on the San Fransisco Peninsula, CA (1)
Season
adults fly during May in Alaska, April in Washington, and March in California (1)
Food
Larvae are leaf miners (blotch mines) of Ocean Spray Holodiscus discolor
Remarks
diurnal
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group – images of live and pinned adults (3)
BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (4)
Wikipedia - brief description (2)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.Wikipedia
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 28 April, 2005 - 8:48am
Additional contributions by anitagould, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 January, 2020 - 7:55pm

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