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Species Acrolophus cockerelli - Hodges#0345

Moth - Acrolophus cockerelli - male - female

Acrolophus cockerelli? - Acrolophus cockerelli

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Tineoidea (Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths)

Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)

Subfamily Acrolophinae (Burrowing Webworm Moths)

Genus Acrolophus (Tubeworm Moths)

Species cockerelli (Acrolophus cockerelli - Hodges#0345)

Hodges Number

0345

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acrolophus cockerelli (Dyar, 1900)

Eulepiste cockerelli Dyar, 1900

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of zoologist T. D. A. Cockerell (1866–1948).

Size

Wingspan 16 mm (Dyar, 1900).

Identification

"[The] moths are in the cockerelli species group and may be that species. To be certain I would need to see a slide of the male genitalia." - Don Davis at the USNM, commenting on the following photo.

Food

Larvae of Acrolophus typically make silken tubes in the soil and feed at the surface on grass thatch or roots.(1)

Print References

Dyar, H. G. 1900. Notes on some North American species of Tineidae. The Canandian Entomologist 32: 307

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 2 March, 2011 - 11:06pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 25 November, 2013 - 11:05pm

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