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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Cosmet Moths (Cosmopterigidae) » Chrysopeleiinae » Obithome » Obithome punctiferella - Hodges#1645 (Obithome punctiferella)

Species Obithome punctiferella - Hodges#1645

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

Obithome punctiferella (Busck) - Obithome punctiferella

Moth (Gelechioidae?) - Obithome punctiferella

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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 Cosmopterigidae (Cosmet Moths)

Subfamily Chrysopeleiinae

Genus Obithome

Species punctiferella (Obithome punctiferella - Hodges#1645)

Hodges Number

1645

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Obithome punctiferella (Busck, 1906)

Orig. Comb: Mompha punctiferella Busck 1906 (1)

Numbers

Monotypic genus (2)

Identification

Det. Ed Knudson, 2009

Range

s. to c. TX (3), (1)

Food

One captured larva was feeding on Acacia constricta (Huisache). A. Hendrickson

Remarks

Type Locality: Victoria, Texas. (1)

Print References

Busck, A., 1906. Tineid moths from southern Texas, with description of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 30(1465): 371. (1)

Hodges, R.W., 1978. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 6.1. E. W. Classey Ltd. and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 138; pl. 5, fig. 59. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Wikipedia

Works Cited

1.	Tineid moths from southern Texas, with descriptions of new species August Busck. 1906. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 30: 721-736.

2.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

3.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

4.	The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 6.1, Gelechioidea, Antequerinae, Cosmopteriginae, Chrysopeleiinae. Hodges, R. W. 1978. London: E. W. Classey Ltd. and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 166 pp.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 16 January, 2009 - 8:30pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Maury Heiman, A. Hendrickson
Last updated 26 May, 2017 - 9:03am

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