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Species Chionodes pereyra - Hodges#2104

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Gelechiid - Chionodes pereyra moth - Chionodes pereyra Gelechiidae - Chionodes pereyra - male Unknown moth - Chionodes pereyra Unknown moth - Chionodes pereyra Pennsylvania Moth - Chionodes pereyra Pennsylvania Moth - Chionodes pereyra Chionodes pereyra
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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 Gelechiinae
Tribe Gelechiini
Genus Chionodes
No Taxon (obscurusella group)
No Taxon (pereyra complex)
Species pereyra (Chionodes pereyra - Hodges#2104)

Hodges Number

2104

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chionodes pereyra Clarke, 1947 (1)

Identification

The original description is available online in the print references below.
Specimen determined by DNA analysis (BOLD)

Genitalia:

Range

Occurs throughout most of eastern North America. (2)
Holotype ♂ collected Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida, April-May 1941, J.R. Malloch. (3)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The adults are most common from March through October. (2)

Food

Larval food plant is Quercus L. spp. (oak) (1)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Hodges, R.W., 1999. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.6, p. 163, pl. 3.4, 4.3. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 7.6. Gelechioidea, Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae (part: Chionodes)
Ronald W. Hodges. 1999. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.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.
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 31 August, 2010 - 6:39pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 6:33pm

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