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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 » Dichomeris » Dichomeris ventrellus - Hodges#2287 (Dichomeris ventrellus)

Species Dichomeris ventrellus - Hodges#2287

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Dichomeris ventrella - Dichomeris ventrellus Brown moth with 6 black/white spots - Dichomeris ventrellus unknown moth - Dichomeris ventrellus Moth - Dichomeris ventrellus Dichomeris - Dichomeris ventrellus Dichomeris ventrellus Dichomeris ventrellus - male Dichomeris ventrellus
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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 Dichomeris
Species ventrellus (Dichomeris ventrellus - Hodges#2287)
Hodges Number
2287
Explanation of Names
Dichomeris ventrellus (Fitch, 1854)
Chaetochilus ventrellus Fitch, 1854
Ypsolophus unicipunctellus Clemens, 1863 (1)
Ypsolophus querciella Chambers, 1872 (1)
Ypsolophus roseocostellus Walsingham, 1882 (1)
Nothris trinotella Coquillett, 1883 (1)
Identification
Detailed description can be found in MONA Fascicle 7-1 at link in citations below. (2)
Range
Records from Maine to Florida, west to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Wisconsin, and one record in southern Arizona. (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
Holotype ♂ collected in New York. (8)
See Also
Dichomeris georgiella
Print References
Fitch, 1854; Transactions of the N.Y. State Agricultural Society. 13: 234
Hodges, R.W. 1986. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.1, p.74; pl.1.31-36
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (7)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) - D. ventrellus (9)
Works Cited
1.Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico
Lee S., Hodges R.W., Brown R.L. 2009. Zootaxa 2231: 1–39.
2.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.
3.A List of the Lepidoptera of Maine. Part 2, The Microlepidoptera. Section 1 & 2
Auburn E. Brower. 1984. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 114: 1-70.
4.Lepidoptera of the Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida
Marc C. Minno. 1992. Florida Entomologist 75: 297-329.
5.Kentucky Butterfly Net Database (moths also)
6.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
7.North American Moth Photographers Group
8.Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the NMNH, Smithsonian Institution
Brown, J.W, D. Adamski, R.W. Hodges & S.M. Bahr, II. 2004. Zootaxa 510: 160 pp.
9.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Abigail Parker on 27 September, 2009 - 11:34am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 12 June, 2023 - 12:44pm

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