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Species Tacoma feriella - Hodges#5901

Tacoma feriella - Hodges#5901 - Tacoma feriella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)

Family Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)

Subfamily Phycitinae

Tribe Phycitini

No Taxon (Sarata Series)

Genus Tacoma

Species feriella (Tacoma feriella - Hodges#5901)

Hodges Number

5901

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tacoma feriella Hulst, 1888

Tacoma submedianella Dyar, 1913

* phylogenetic sequence #175225

Size

Forewing length 7-10 mm. (1)

Wingspan 15-20 mm. (2)

Identification

"Expands 20 mm. Palpi gray, white beneath ; head and thorax dark gray with a bluish shade; abdomen fuscous gray, interlined with light gray; fore wings dark gray with a bluish shade; lines whitish, the inner nearly at middle, angulate, the outer waved and dentate, subparallel with outer margin; on inner margin just beyond basal line is a rather large broken white spot ; discal spot faint with outer edge whitish; a marginal line of black points ; hind wings fuscous, a black marginal line. — Texas." - Hulst (1888).

Range

Southern California to central Texas. (1) MPG records indicate that it ranges into northern California. (3)

Food

Dammers reared them on "mistletoe" in California. (1), (2)

Print References

Heinrich, C. 1956. American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae. United States National Museum Bulletin 207: 178-179 (2)

Hulst, G.D. 1888. New genera and species of Epipaschiae and Phycitidae. Entomologica Americana 4(6): 115

Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.25.23m, p.190 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae Carl Heinrich. 1956. United States National Museum Bulletin 207: 1-581.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 3 January, 2010 - 9:04pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 12 December, 2022 - 8:49am

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