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Species Telphusa nigrimaculata - Hodges#1858.1

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 Litini

Genus Telphusa

Species nigrimaculata (Telphusa nigrimaculata - Hodges#1858.1)

Hodges Number

1858.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Telphusa nigrimaculata Braun, 1923

Range

TL: Puerto Escondido, Baja California Sur

Recorded from CA

Remarks

Listed as incertae sedis by Lee et al. (2009)

Print References

Braun, A.F., 1923. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. The tineid moths. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, ser. 4: vol. 12(10): 118

Lee, S., R.W. Hodges, & R.L. Brown, 2009. Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico. Zootaxa, 2231: 1–39

Internet References

MPG

Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 9 May, 2022 - 7:16pm

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