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Species Melanocinclis sparsa - Hodges#1505

Notes on Cosmopterygidae with descriptions of new genera and species (microlepidoptera).

By Annette F. Braun
Entomological News 30(9), 1919

Online here.

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Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 18 December, 2016 - 7:21pm

The genus Perimede Chambers in North America North of Mexico (Lepidoptera: Walshiidae)

By Hodges, R. W.
Entomological Society of Washington, 1962

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 64 (3): 145-154

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 15 March, 2015 - 5:34am

The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 6.1, Gelechioidea, Antequerinae, Cosmopteriginae, Chrysopeleiinae.

By Hodges, R. W.
London: E. W. Classey Ltd. and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 166 pp, 1978

In Domonick, R. B., T. Dominick, and C. R. Edwards (eds.). The moths of America north of Mexico. Fascicle 6.1.

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 March, 2012 - 7:40pm

Nearctic Walshiidae notes and new taxa (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)

By Hodges, R. W.
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 18: 1-30, 1969

The Hodges 1969 paper is downloadable here

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 March, 2012 - 7:38pm

A revision of the Cosmopterigidae of America north of Mexico, with a definition of the Momphidae and Walshiidae

By Hodges, R. W.
Entomologica Americana 42 (N. S.): 1-166, 1962

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 March, 2012 - 7:14pm

Notes on Microlepidoptera with descriptions of new species

By Braun, A.F.
Entomological news, 32: 8-18, 1923

Braun, A.F., 1923. Notes on Microlepidoptera with descriptions of new species. Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 32: 8-18.

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 2 January, 2020 - 1:38pm

Phylogeny and feeding trait evolution of the mega-diverse Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera)...

By Sohn, J.C., J.C. Regier, C. Mitter, D. Adamski, J.F. Landry, M. Heikkilä, K.T. Park, T. Harrison, K. Mitter, A. Zwick, A.Y. Kaw
Systematic Entomology, 41(1): 112–132., 2016

Sohn, J.C., J.C. Regier, C. Mitter, D. Adamski, J.F. Landry, M. Heikkilä, K.T. Park, T. Harrison, K. Mitter, A. Zwick, A.Y. Kawahara, S. Cho, M.P. Cummings & P. Schmitz, 2016. Phylogeny and feeding trait evolution of the mega-diverse Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera): new insight from 19 nuclear genes. Systematic Entomology, 41(1): 112–132.

Abstract and link to fee based access here.

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 29 July, 2017 - 4:57am

Microlepidoptera of Northern Utah

By Braun, Annette
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 51(3), 183-226, 1925

Descriptions of new species, including: Isophrictis occidentalis, Aristotelia amelanchierella, Aristotelia planitia, Gnorimoschema consueta, Gnorimoschema macromaculata, Gelechia fructuaria, Gelechia prognosticata, Brachmia casca.

Available online (requires JSTOR access) here

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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 4 August, 2016 - 6:02pm

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