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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Dichomeridinae » Helcystogramma » Helcystogramma melanocarpa - Hodges#2269 (Helcystogramma melanocarpa)

Species Helcystogramma melanocarpa - Hodges#2269

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

2269 – Helcystogramma melanocarpa ??? - Helcystogramma melanocarpa

White moth with six spots - Helcystogramma melanocarpa

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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 Dichomeridinae

Genus Helcystogramma

Species melanocarpa (Helcystogramma melanocarpa - Hodges#2269)

Hodges Number

2269

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Helcystogramma melanocarpa (Meyrick, 1929)

Brachmia melanocarpa Meyrick, 1929 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 069675

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (2)

Range

Eastern United States and southeastern Canada including New Brunswick. (3), (4), (5), (6)

Holotype ♂, Forestburg, Texas, "August". (1)

Season

The main flight period is March to August. (4)

Print References

Meyrick, E., 1929. Exotic Microlepidoptera. E.W. Classey Ltd., 3: 527 (1)

Hodges, R.W., 1986. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p.130; pl.3.34. (7)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)

Works Cited

1.	Exotic Microlepidoptera, volumes 1-5, 1912-1937. (1969 reprint) J. F. Gates Clarke, Edward Meyrick, T. B. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, J. T. Janse. 1969. E. W. Classey Ltd.

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

3.	South Carolina Moth Species

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

6.	Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.

7.	The Moths of America North of Mexico: Fascicle 7.1, Revision of North American Gelechiidae family and... Hodges, R. W. 1986. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by tom murray on 26 September, 2009 - 8:00pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 September, 2013 - 8:32pm

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