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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 aglaia - Hodges#2302.4 (Dichomeris aglaia)

Species Dichomeris aglaia - Hodges#2302.4

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Twirler Moth - Hodges #2302.4 - Dichomeris aglaia

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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 aglaia (Dichomeris aglaia - Hodges#2302.4)

Hodges Number

2302.4

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichomeris aglaia Hodges, 1986

* phylogenetic sequence #071300

Explanation of Names

Specific name aglaia is Greek meaning "splendor, brilliant, shining one."

Range

Southeastern United States. (1), (2), (3)

Type locality: Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida.

Food

Larval host is dogfennel (Eupatorium capillifolium, Asteraceae).

Print References

Brown, J.W, D. Adamski, R.W. Hodges & S.M. Bahr, II 2004. Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Zootaxa 510: 10 (PDF) (2)

Hodges, R.W. 1986. Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 7.1: p.85, pl.2.14-15 (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the NMNH, Smithsonian Institution Brown, J.W, D. Adamski, R.W. Hodges & S.M. Bahr, II. 2004. Zootaxa 510: 160 pp.

3.	Lepidoptera of the Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida Marc C. Minno. 1992. Florida Entomologist 75: 297-329.

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.

Contributed by Ken Wolgemuth on 9 March, 2010 - 6:43am
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 4 August, 2013 - 3:57pm

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