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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Euzophera Series » Myelopsis » Myelopsis minutulella - Hodges#5719 (Myelopsis minutulella)

Species Myelopsis minutulella - Hodges#5719

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

Myelopsis minutularia - Myelopsis minutulella

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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 (Euzophera Series)

Genus Myelopsis

Species minutulella (Myelopsis minutulella - Hodges#5719)

Hodges Number

5719

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Myelopsis minutulella (Hulst, 1887)

Dioryctria minutulella Hulst, 1887 (1)

Dioryctria minutularia Hulst, 1887 (misspelling) (1)

Myelois coniella Ragonot, 1887

Rampylla nefas Dyar, 1922

Explanation of Names

Myelopsis minutulella (Hulst, 1887) is restored as the valid name. This species was erroneously listed in the Hodges 1983 Checklist as "5719 minutularia (Hulst, 1887)" with "minutulella (Hulst, 1890)" as a synonym. Originally described as "minutularia" the spelling was changed to "minutulella" on the corrections page of same work.

Identification

A fairly large (9 - 11 mm) Phycitine with an overall silvery gray aspect and oblique AM and PM lines on the forewings. Distinguished by the presence of small buffy patches at the inner base of the forewings; the very similar congener Myelopsis alatella lacks these patches.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD) from Libby & Rick Avis

Range

MPG Distribution

See Also

Myelopsis subtetricella

Laetilia zamacrella

Print References

Hulst, 1887: 136, [244] (Errors and Corrections).

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

Insects of Iowa

Works Cited

1.	New species of Pyralidae Hulst, G.D. 1887. New species of Pyralidae. Entomologica Americana, 3: 129–138.

Contributed by v belov on 11 April, 2010 - 1:06pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert Lord Zimlich, Chuck Sexton
Last updated 12 April, 2021 - 6:54am

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