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Species Diachorisia velatella - Hodges#0279

Illinois  Data Point - Diachorisia velatella Clothes Moth - Diachorisia velatella clothes moth - Diachorisia velatella Diachorisia velatella  - Diachorisia velatella Diachorisia velatella Diachorisia velatella Elachista - Diachorisia velatella - female Diachorisia velatella - male
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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)
No Taxon (Incertae sedis)
Genus Diachorisia
Species velatella (Diachorisia velatella - Hodges#0279)
Hodges Number
0279
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Diachorisia velatella Clemens, 1860
* phylogenetic sequence #008400
Identification
Range
Records from Illinois northeast to Maine, south to Florida, west to Louisiana and Oklahoma. (1)
Print References
Clemens, B. 1860. Contributions to American Lepidopterology - No. 3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1860: 13
Works Cited
1.The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States
William T.M. Forbes. 1923. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Memoir 68.