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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Flower Moths (Scythrididae) » Landryia » Landryia impositella - Hodges#1662 (Landryia impositella)

Species Landryia impositella - Hodges#1662

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Food · Print References · 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 Scythrididae (Flower Moths)
Genus Landryia
Species impositella (Landryia impositella - Hodges#1662)
Hodges Number
1662
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Landryia impositella (Zeller, 1855)
Scythris impositella Zeller, 1855
Butalis impositella
Asymmetrura impositella
Butalis matutella Clemens, 1860 (long considered a syn.)
Gelechia monstratella Walker, 1864 (594)
Butalis brevistriga Chambers, 1875
Butalis dorsipallidella Chambers, 1875
Butalis immaculatella Chambers, 1875
* phylogenetic sequence #048400
Size
Wingspan about 12 mm. (1)
Identification
Adult - see description in Forbes (1923) under S. impositella (349).
Food
Older sources indicate larvae in webs on the underside of asters.
Print References
Zeller, P.C. 1855. Die Arten der Gattung Butalis. Linnaea entomologica 10: 241
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
BOLD Systems
Works Cited
1.The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States
William T.M. Forbes. 1923. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Memoir 68.
Contributed by tom murray on 1 June, 2009 - 7:59pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 June, 2014 - 1:51pm

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