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Species Friseria acaciella - Hodges#1914

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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 Gelechiidae (Twirler Moths)
Subfamily Gelechiinae
Tribe Gelechiini
Genus Friseria
Species acaciella (Friseria acaciella - Hodges#1914 )
Hodges Number
1914
Explanation of Names
Friseria acaciella (Busck, 1906)
Numbers
4 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Range
c. TX to Mex. - Map (2)(GBIF)
Habitat
Common in south Texas (2)
Season
Feb-Dec (BG data)
Remarks
Type Locality: Brownsville, Cameron Co., TX; June 1904; H.S. Barber
Print References
Busck,1906: 722. (3)
Hodges, 1966: 722; pl. 7, figs. 52, 53 (spread specimens); pl. 17, figs. 114, 118; pl. 18, fig. 125 (♂ gen.); pl. 25, fig. 165 (♀ gen.). (4)
Works Cited
1.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
2.Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 3C: Micro-Moths and Geometroids
Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2008. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. 30 pp., 18 plates.
3.Tineid moths from southern Texas, with descriptions of new species
August Busck. 1906. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 30: 721-736.
4.Revision of Nearctic Gelechiidae. 1. The Lita group (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
R. W. . Hodges. 1966. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 119: 1-66.
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems