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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) » Tineinae » Monopis » Orange-headed Monopis - Hodges#0421 (Monopis spilotella)

Species Monopis spilotella - Orange-headed Monopis - Hodges#0421

Orange-headed Monopis, 0421 - Monopis spilotella

Orange-headed Monopis - Monopis spilotella

Tineidae: Monopis spilotella - Monopis spilotella

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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 Tineinae

Genus Monopis

Species spilotella (Orange-headed Monopis - Hodges#0421)

Hodges Number

0421

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tinea biflavimaculella, Monopis insignisella, Monopis biflavimaculella, Blabophanes distincta, Monopis halospila

Size

8 to 10 mm. Wingspan 15 to 20 mm.

Identification

Head: Head pale orange-yellow, long haired (scaled). Palpi pale yellowish, long, folded; underside dark brown.

Antenna: 1st half dark, rest lighter.

Thorax: Dark brown with a pale spot at tip.

Wings: Blue-black. Smaller white triangular patch at mid wing along costa edge. Small semi-hyaline spot just above patch. Another smaller white patch on inner margin near wing tip (tornal or anal angle). Fringe brown with white flecks mixed in. Hind wings grey.

Legs: Mixed brown and white. Hind thigh (femora) feathered, white. Feet white.

Abdomen: Dark grey.

Range

Continental.

Season

May to September.

Food

Debris, animal and vegetable matter, fungus.

Remarks

Types:

Holotype as Tinea biflavimaculella by Clemens, 1859. Locality: Unknown. In the United States National Museum, Smithsonian.

Internet References

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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1859, Vol. 11, pg. 257 by Clemens.

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1860, Vol. 12, pg. 433 by Stainton (London).

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 1863-64, vol. 2, pg. 415 by Clemens.

Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1882-83, Vol. 10, pg. 170 by Walsingham.

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1901-03, Vol. 5: Notes on Brackenridge Clemens’ Types of Tineina by August Busck.

Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1904 Vol. 27, pg. 775 by Busck.

Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1905, Vol. 31, pg. 31: American Lepidoptera by William G. Dietz.

Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1923, Memoir #68: Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States by William T. M. Forbes.

Contributed by John Davis on 15 August, 2009 - 12:52pm
Additional contributions by lee_penner, Kyhl Austin, Steve Morris
Last updated 18 August, 2024 - 12:25pm

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