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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 georgiella - Hodges#2277 (Dichomeris georgiella)

Species Dichomeris georgiella - Hodges#2277

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · 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 Gelechioidea (Twirler Moths and kin)

Family Gelechiidae (Twirler Moths)

Subfamily Dichomeridinae

Genus Dichomeris

Species georgiella (Dichomeris georgiella - Hodges#2277)

Hodges Number

2277

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichomeris georgiella (Walker, 1866)

Depressaria georgiella Walker, 1866

Trichotaphe georgiella

Identification

Detailed description can be found in MONA Fascicle 7-1 at link in citations below. (1)

Range

Records from southeastern Canada and Maine, south to Florida, west to Texas, Oklahoma and Illinois. Colorado and Arizona in the west. (2), (3), (4)

Type locality: Georgia.

Season

Records of adults from March through October. (2)

Food

Larval hosts include scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea Münchh., Fagaceae) and northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) (HOSTS).

See Also

Dichomeris ventrellus

Print References

Hodges, R.W. 1986. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 75; pl.1., figs. 37-40. (1)

Walker, F. 1866. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35 (Suppl. 5): 1827.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona listed (3)

South Carolina Moth Species Checklist (5)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

4.	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.

5.	South Carolina Moth Species

Contributed by v belov on 13 October, 2009 - 6:25pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 12 June, 2023 - 12:43pm

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