Species Dichomeris laetitia - Hodges#2294.3

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

Dichomeris laetitia? - Dichomeris laetitia

Tan moth with black marks - Dichomeris laetitia

Please ID this small moth - Dichomeris laetitia

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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 laetitia (Dichomeris laetitia - Hodges#2294.3)

Hodges Number

2294.3

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichomeris laetitia Hodges, 1986 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 070700

Range

Illinois to Oklahoma, Mississippi and Maryland. (2)

Holotype ♂ collected in Illinois, Putnam County (7 June 1962). (3)

See Also

Dichomeris furia has a somewhat differently shaped black marking on the forewing that touches the inner margin, in laetitia it does not touch. D. furia also has a more contrasting bluish sub-terminal area. The sub-terminal area in laetitia is light gray and hardly contrasts with the rest of the wing (Hugh McGuinness).

Dichomeris stipendiaria

Print References

Hodges, R.W., 1986. The Moths of America North of Mexico: Fascicle 7.1, Revision of North American Gelechiidae family and its three subfamilies, p. 88, plate 2, fig. 22. (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 7.1, Revision of North American Gelechiidae family and... Hodges, R. W. 1986. 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 Chris Mallory on 10 December, 2010 - 11:05pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 20 August, 2013 - 8:25am

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