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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) » Nemapogoninae » Nemapogon » Nemapogon tylodes - Hodges#0274 (Nemapogon tylodes)

Species Nemapogon tylodes - Hodges#0274

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · Internet References

Nemapogon tylodes 0274 - Nemapogon tylodes

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Tineoidea (Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths)

Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)

Subfamily Nemapogoninae

Genus Nemapogon

Species tylodes (Nemapogon tylodes - Hodges#0274)

Hodges Number

0274

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tinea tylodes

Explanation of Names

Author: Meyrick 1919

Size

5 to 6 mm long. Wingspan 14 mm.

Identification

Head: White, long haired (scaled). Palpi white, darker on underside of 2nd joint.

Antenna: Short, about ½ length of wing; light grey.

Thorax: White, side has gray to dark spot.

Wings: Long and narrow, shiny white with a few gray speckles; some parts with faint yellowish perpendicular lines. Inner margin intermittent dark, with large brown patch at center. Costa margin streaked dark from base to ¼. At mid wing, brown semi-circle. Another small brown patch at wing tip. Fringe mostly white, dark at patch on wing tip. Hindwings gray, fringe lighter.

Legs: Dark, feet stripe brown and white.

Abdomen: Grayish-white.

Range

Reported throughout northern Canada; Northeast coast of U.S. and Washington state.

Season

July and August.

Remarks

Types:

Unknown. Specimens are from Toronto & Muskoka Lake (4 specimens).

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

encyclopedia of Life

Exotic Microlepidoptera by Edward Meyrick, pg. 247.

Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1923, Memoir #68, pg. 129 by Forbes.

Contributed by tom murray on 18 July, 2009 - 7:28pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, lee_penner, Steve Morris
Last updated 2 April, 2022 - 9:18am

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