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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 · Range · Season · Food · 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
Range
Records from southeastern Canada and Maine, south to Florida, west to Texas, Oklahoma and Illinois. Colorado and Arizona in the west. (1), (2), (3)
Type locality: Georgia.
Season
Records of adults from March through October. (1)
Food
Larval hosts include scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea Münchh., Fagaceae) and northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) (HOSTS).
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. (4)
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 (1)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona listed (2)
South Carolina Moth Species Checklist (5)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.Moths of Southeast Arizona
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.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.
5.South Carolina Moth Species
Contributed by v belov on 13 October, 2009 - 6:25pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 23 September, 2014 - 10:27pm

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