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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Scavenger Moths (Blastobasidae) » Scavenger Moths (Blastobasinae) » Holcocerini » Holcocera » Holcocera immaculella - Hodges#1221 (Holcocera immaculella)

Species Holcocera immaculella - Hodges#1221

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Holcocera immaculella - Hodges #1221 - Holcocera immaculella

Blastobasid I06A6272 - Holcocera immaculella

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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 Holcocerini

Genus Holcocera

Species immaculella (Holcocera immaculella - Hodges#1221)

Hodges Number

1221

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Holcocera immaculella McDunnough, 1930 (1)

Holcocera concolor Adamski & Maier, 2003

Explanation of Names

Holcocera immaculella McDunnough, 1929 includes as a synonym Holcocera concolor Adamski & Maier, 2003 (Adamski in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023).

Identification

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Food

seeds and cones of conifers (Moths of North Carolina)

Life Cycle

Larva; adult

See Also

Holcocera villella is a western species. Probably not separable by photo.

Calosima dianella male (darker for form formerly listed as Calosima lepidophaga) lacks notch at base of antennae otherwise separated by genitalia.

Print References

Adamski, D. & C. Maier, 2003. A new Holcocera Clemens (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Coleophoridae: Holcocerini). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 105(1): 144-148.

McDunnough, 1961 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Moths of North Carolina

iNaturalist

Works Cited

1.	Some apparently new Microlepidoptera J. McDunnough. 1929. The Canadian Entomologist, 61(12): 266-271.

2.	A study of the Blastobasinae of Nova Scotia, with particular reference to genitalic characters (Microlepidoptera, Blastobasidae) McDunnough, J.H. 1961. American Museum Novitates. 2045:1-20.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by tom murray on 4 January, 2008 - 8:01pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 27 January, 2025 - 7:16am

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