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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 » Gnorimoschemini » Gnorimoschema » gallaesolidaginis group (Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis group) » Coyote Brush Stem Gall moth - Hodges#1972 (Gnorimoschema baccharisella)

Species Gnorimoschema baccharisella - Coyote Brush Stem Gall moth - Hodges#1972

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

Gall - Moth - Gnorimoschema baccharisella - Gnorimoschema baccharisella

Galls on Coyote Bush - Gnorimoschema baccharisella

Ovoid nodules inside old Gnorimoschema baccharisella gall - Gnorimoschema baccharisella

Coyote Brush stem gall, Gnorimoschema baccharisella? - Gnorimoschema baccharisella

Unknown moth - Gnorimoschema baccharisella

Rhopalomyia baccharis? - Gnorimoschema baccharisella

Stem gall on Baccharis pilularis - Gnorimoschema baccharisella

Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

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 Gnorimoschemini

Genus Gnorimoschema

No Taxon (gallaesolidaginis group)

Species baccharisella (Coyote Brush Stem Gall moth - Hodges#1972)

Hodges Number

1972

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gnorimoschema baccharisella Busck, 1903

Food

Host plant: Baccharis pilularis

Remarks

It makes galls in Coyote Brush, Baccharis pilularis.

Print References

Busck, 1903: 825. (1)

Powell, J.A. & Povolný D., 2001. Gnorimoschemine moths of coastal dune and scrub habitats in California (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Holarctic Lepidoptera, 8, (suppl. 1): 10.

Powell & Opler, 2009: 98 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the American moths of the family Gelechiidae, with descriptions of new species August Busck. 1903. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25: 767-938.

2.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 4 February, 2008 - 3:41pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Chuck Entz
Last updated 15 June, 2019 - 8:44am

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