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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Scardiinae » Morophagoides » Morophagoides burkerella - Hodges#0314 (Morophagoides burkerella)

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Morophagoides burkerella

Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
July 2, 2008

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Contributed by Libby & Rick Avis on 5 July, 2009 - 2:13am
Last updated 22 July, 2010 - 1:33pm

Moved

Moved from Morophagoides.

… Graham Montgomery, 22 July, 2010 - 1:33pm

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Moved

Moved from Scardiinae.

… Graham Montgomery, 22 July, 2010 - 1:32pm

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… Libby & Rick Avis, 10 July, 2009 - 12:28am

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0314 - Morophagoides burkerella

Identified by Terry Harrison, Referee for micromoths at MPG, to whom I sent the photos. Terry reports:

"Scardiella approximatella is known only from eastern North America, and as you implied, it is too small to be the moth in question. Morophagoides burkerella is characterized as "the larger and commoner of the two Nearctic Morophagoides species" (wingspan, 19-28mm for M. burkerella, the known range of which is CA, UT, WA, BC Canada, plus--perhaps questionably--PA; versus 14-16mm for the other species, M. berkeleyella, which is known only from CA)."

Robinson, G. S. 1986. Fungus moths: a review of the Scardiinae (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 52(2): 37-181.

Two specimen photos of this species are presented in the new Moths of Western North America. Plate 2.20, 21.

… Bob Patterson, 9 July, 2009 - 5:50pm

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Morophagoides burkerella

Thanks! Have seen this several times more & my original attempt at an ID just didn't seem right. Just got my copy of Moths of Western North America; it's going to be a great additional resource. Sorry about the rsvp, but I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate all your help.

Libby Avis

… Libby & Rick Avis, 10 July, 2009 - 12:56am

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