Species Dichomeris isa - Hodges#2301.2

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

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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 isa (Dichomeris isa - Hodges#2301.2)

Hodges Number

2301.2

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichomeris isa Hodges, 1986

Phylogenetic sequence #420564

Size

Wingspan about 13 mm.

Identification

Adult - forewing dark gray or blackish with broad white stripe along costa, stopping short of apex; inner edge of stripe has 2 small oblique "teeth" pointing toward outer margin; fringe scales dark. Hindwing medium gray with wide fringe.

Range

Scattered records from Minnesota to southeastern Ontario, south to Florida, west to Oklahoma and Nebraska, and again in Arizona and California. (1)

Holotype ♂ collected in Oklahoma, Sequoyah County, Tenkiller Lake (6-9 VII 1979). (2)

See Also

D. serrativittella and 3 species (imitata, simulata, xanthoa) described by Ronald Hodges in 1986 are inseparable from isa based on external characters, but apparently none of those 4 species occurs in the northeast.

Print References

Hodges, R.W. 1986. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.1, p.103, pl.3.3 (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

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.	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 Robin McLeod on 9 December, 2005 - 1:17pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 November, 2017 - 12:39pm

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