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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Momphid Moths (Momphidae) » Momphinae » Mompha » Mompha definitella - Hodges#1440 (Mompha definitella)

Species Mompha definitella - Hodges#1440

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

Mompha definitella? - Mompha definitella

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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 Momphidae (Momphid Moths)

Subfamily Momphinae

Genus Mompha

Species definitella (Mompha definitella - Hodges#1440)

Hodges Number

1440

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mompha definitella (Zeller, 1873)

Laverna definitella Zeller, 1873

Numbers

Mompha includes 36 named species in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan about 13 mm. (MPG)(2)

Identification

The original description as Laverna definitella Zeller, is available online in the print references below.

Small, narrow-winged moths with two or more tufts of raised scales on the forewing.

Photograph determined by Terry Harrison

Range

Scattered records throughout the United States including Arizona, Colorado, Texas, New Jersey and Maine. (3), (4), (4), (5)

Holotype collection location was USA, Texas, Dallas.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults are most common from May through August. (MPG)(2)

See Also

Compare on the plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Zeller, P.C. 1873. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 23: 311.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	A List of the Lepidoptera of Maine. Part 2, The Microlepidoptera. Section 1 & 2 Auburn E. Brower. 1984. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 114: 1-70.

4.	Moths of Rocky Mountain National Park (USGS)

5.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 June, 2010 - 6:18pm
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 7:16pm

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