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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) » Burrowing Webworm Moths (Acrolophinae) » Tubeworm Moths (Acrolophus) » Acrolophus laticapitana - Hodges#0359 (Acrolophus laticapitana)

Species Acrolophus laticapitana - Hodges#0359

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Acrolophinae (Burrowing Webworm Moths)

Genus Acrolophus (Tubeworm Moths)

Species laticapitana (Acrolophus laticapitana - Hodges#0359)

Hodges Number

0359

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acrolophus laticapitana (Walsingham, 1884)

Pseudoconchylis laticapitana Walsingham, 1884 (1)

Acrolophus laticapitanus

Phalonia unistrigana Dyar, 1903

Acrolophus leopardus Busck, 1910 (2), (3)

Acrolophus occidens Busck, 1910 (2), (3)

Acrolophus flavicomus Busck, 1912 (4), (3)

Acrolophus laticapitana clarkei Hasbrouck, 1964 (3)

Acrolophus laticapitana heinrichi Hasbrouck, 1964 (3)

Phylogenetic sequence #300079

Size

Forewing length 6.5-9.5 mm. (5)

Identification

Adult - small, slender, somewhat like tortricids. Pale yellow to tan or whitish gray. (5), (1)

Range

Northern California to southern Arizona.

Print References

Walsingham, T. de Grey. 1884. X. North American Tortricidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1884: 133. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Thomas de Grey Walsingham (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	X. North American Tortricidae. Lord Walsingham. 1884. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1884: 121-147.

2.	New Microlepidoptera from New Mexico and California and a synoptic table of the North American species of Heliodines (Stainton) August Busck. 1910. Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington 11: 175-188.

3.	Moths of the family Acrolophidae in America north of Mexico (Microlepidoptera) Frank F. Hasbrouck. 1964. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 114: 487-706.

4.	Microplepidoptera from Laguna Beach, Southern California. August Busck. 1912. First Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory: 167-169.

5.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Nina on 2 September, 2009 - 6:45pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 16 September, 2022 - 10:24am

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