Species Callima nathrax - Hodges#1047

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Oecophoridae (Concealer Moths)

Subfamily Oecophorinae

Tribe Oecophorini

Genus Callima

Species nathrax (Callima nathrax - Hodges#1047)

Hodges Number

1047

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Callima nathrax Hodges, 1974 (1)

Identification

"second segment of labial palpus mainly yellow orange to red orange" (1)

Range

Known only from Florida.

Holotype: Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL.

Remarks

There is only one DNA barcoded specimen of Callima from Florida. It's in BIN BOLD:AAI5335 with no other specimens and was collected at the Archbold Biological Station, the type locality of nathrax. BOLD:AAI5335 is one of four BIN groups narrowly divided by DNA barcode associated with argenticinctella suggesting a species complex. BOLD:AAA9667, the BIN with the most specimens and the largest range, probably represents true argenticinctella. It includes some with a patch of black scales at the tornus. Barcode places Mark Dreiling's specimens from Oklahoma in BOLD:ABY9153. The fourth BIN is BOLD:AAA9668 with specimens mostly from Canada. Only the specimen in BOLD:AAI5335 has pale palps.

Although there are no specimens of nathrax with barcodes, several were sequenced but the DNA was degraded to less than half of the full 658 base pairs, so none were assigned to a BIN. The most complete is a paratype of nathrax with 307 base pairs. Those 307 bp were a 100% match to those of the specimen in BOLD:AAI5335 and only a 97% match to the closest argenticinctella. Treating BOLD:AAI5335 as the BIN for nathrax seems abundantly reasonable. (Steve Nanz, pers. comm., March, 2023)

See Also

Callima argenticinctella Clemens, 1860 has second segment of labial palpus darker brown or gray, although even this feature is not diagnostic, and is not found south of northern Florida. Hodges (1974) (1) mentions a lack black scales at tornus and tegula nearly concolorous with mesothorax but these features are apparently not consistent.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) (3)

BOLD:AAI5335 (3)

U.S. National Entomological Collection (USNM) - Holotype ♀

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 6.2 Gelechioidea, Oecophoridae Ronald W. Hodges. 1974. E. W. Classey Ltd. and RBD Publications Inc.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 16 March, 2023 - 4:37am

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