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Species Swammerdamia pyrella - Rufous-tipped Swammerdamia Moth - Hodges#2414

plaid caterpillar - Swammerdamia pyrella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Yponomeutoidea (Ermine Moths and kin)

Family Yponomeutidae (Ermine Moths)

Subfamily Yponomeutinae

Genus Swammerdamia

Species pyrella (Rufous-tipped Swammerdamia Moth - Hodges#2414)

Hodges Number

2414

Explanation of Names

Author: Villers, 1789

Remarks

Doganlar (1979) appears to have replaced this with Swammerdamia beirnei based on slight differences is wing pattern and genitalia. BOLD barcodes do not appear to distinguish between North American samples of beirnei and pyrella. It seems that either the species currently treated here as pyrella should include as a synonym beirnei or it should be changed to beirnei.

See Also

Other species in both Swammerdamia and Paraswammerdamia. It may be that dissection is required to separate them to species.

Print References

Doganlar, M. 1979. A new species of Swammerdamia HBN. (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) from British Columbia. The Canadian Entomologist. 111(8): 967

Duckworth, D. 1965. North American Moths of the Genus Swammerdamia (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 116: 549-555.

Hübner, J. 1825. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. p. 425

Internet References

Wikipedia (1)

iNaturalist (2)

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Wikipedia

2.	iNaturalist

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 11 January, 2010 - 6:13pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 8 October, 2024 - 2:10pm

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