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Moth 09.09.06 (1) - Spinitibia hodgesi

Moth 09.09.06 (1) - Spinitibia hodgesi
Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
September 6, 2009
Attracted to light at night. Please help with ID.

Moved to Spinitibia hodgesi
Moved from Unplaced new species.

Per Bob Patterson, this is now 1134.1 – Spinitibia hodgesi – Lee & Brown, 2010.

 
Thanks, Steve!
For all your recent moves!

Moved
Moved from Moths.

1144.96 - Symmocinae n. sp.
SangMi Lee now informs me that the two moths (this one and Mark Dreiling's mentioned below) are considered to be a new species in Symmocinae, which is a subfamily of Blastobasidae.

 
New genus and new species
I submitted a manuscript described this new genus and species to Journal of Lepidopterists' Society.
It will be published soon.

 
Thanks, Sangmi Lee!
^^

 
Taxonomy
We already have Blastobasinae as a subfamily with a note that it was "formerly considered a separate family (Blastobasidae); treated as a subfamily of Coleophoridae by Hodges in Kristensen, 1999"

 
Also
According to All-Leps, Symmocinae is in Autostichidae. Seems like we need a Gelechioidea specialist to help us straighten things out, but until that happens, the default is to follow All-Leps.

It appears that a genus has not been suggested for these moths, so we may just have to place them at family level until they get a name? All-Leps lists just one species in this subfamily, Symmoca signatella.

 
Some other images
I will be adding more of the images to this gallery pbase-MJD - also containing part of the current relationship tree in BOLD.

 
DNA data
DNA barcoding has been completed on 18 of these. They match each other and do not match anything currently in BOLD. I plan to send new specimens to MSU.

See Note Above
... very similar to, if not identical to, a moth photographed by Mark Dreiling in Oklahoma and called an undescribed species by SangMi Lee at Miss. Ent. Museum. (no rsvp, thanks)

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