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Species Calosima albapenella - Hodges#1647

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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 Calosima
Species albapenella (Calosima albapenella - Hodges#1647)
Hodges Number
1647
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Calosima albapenella (Chambers, 1875)
Butalis albapenella Chambers, 1875
Blastobasis citricolella Chambers, 1880
Holcocera nana Dietz, 1910
Identification
Type specimen of Holcocera nana Dietz, 1910 (USNM)
Print References
Adamski, D. & R. W. Hodges, 1996. An annotated list of North American Blastobasinae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Coleophoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 98(4): 716-717.
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