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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Gelechiinae » Gelechiini » Chionodes » discoocellella group (Chionodes discoocellella group) » Eyeringed Chionodes Moth  - Hodges#2072 (Chionodes discoocellella)

Species Chionodes discoocellella - Eyeringed Chionodes Moth - Hodges#2072

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · 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 Gelechioidea (Twirler Moths and kin)
Family Gelechiidae (Twirler Moths)
Subfamily Gelechiinae
Tribe Gelechiini
Genus Chionodes
No Taxon (discoocellella group)
Species discoocellella (Eyeringed Chionodes Moth - Hodges#2072)
Hodges Number
2072
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Chionodes discoocellella (Chambers, 1872)
Gelechia discoocellella Chambers, 1872
Identification
Adult: FW brown, tinged with roseate or purple, and faintly streaked with ocherous within the inner margin, and with a yellowish-white spot containing a black central dot at the end of the disc, a small black spot on the fold, and one about the middle of the wing, and with a few ocherous-yellow small spots around the apex between the nervules. (1)
Genitalia:
Range
Recorded from Maine to South Dakota, Florida, Texas and Colorado (1)
Food
Larvae feed on Polygonum pensylvanicum, Fallopia convolvulus, Persicaria punctata, and Rumex crispus (1)
See Also
Aroga epigaeella
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
BOLD Systems (3)
Wikipedia - brief description (1)
Insects of Iowa
Works Cited
1.Wikipedia
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by tom murray on 4 January, 2008 - 5:20pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 7:23pm

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