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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Stenomatinae » Gonioterma » Gonioterma mistrella - Hodges#1032 (Gonioterma mistrella)

Species Gonioterma mistrella - Hodges#1032

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

Pennsylvania Moth - Gonioterma mistrella

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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 Depressariidae

Subfamily Stenomatinae

Genus Gonioterma

Species mistrella (Gonioterma mistrella - Hodges#1032)

Hodges Number

1032

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gonioterma mistrella (Busck, 1907)

Stenoma mistrella Busck, 1907

Numbers

There are two species of the genus Gonioterma in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan 20-23 mm. (2)

Pupa 7 mm (Miller, 1940)

Identification

Larva - Pink with dark dorsal stripe and chestnut head. See Miller (1940) in Print references.

Range

Records from much of the eastern half of the United States and southern Ontario. (1), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Type specimens collected in St. Louis, Missouri (September).

Food

Grasses (Miller, 1940).

Print References

Busck, A. 1907. New American Tineina. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 8: 93 (2)

Miller, H.D. Oliver 1940. Observations on Stenoma mistrella Busck (Stenomidae, Lepidoptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 13(1): 1-3

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (1)

Moths of Maryland

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	New American Tineina August Busck. 1907. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 8: 86-99.

3.	Kentucky Butterfly Net Database (moths also)

4.	South Carolina Moth Species

5.	Arkansas Lepidoptera Survey

6.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 18 October, 2009 - 11:15am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 2 July, 2016 - 3:45pm

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