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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Ethmiinae » Ethmia » prattiella group (Ethmia prattiella group) » Ethmia prattiella - Hodges#1007 (Ethmia prattiella)

Species Ethmia prattiella - Hodges#1007

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · 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 Depressariidae

Subfamily Ethmiinae

Genus Ethmia

No Taxon (prattiella group)

Species prattiella (Ethmia prattiella - Hodges#1007)

Hodges Number

1007

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ethmia prattiella Busck, 1915 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 029000

Numbers

There are more than 50 named species of Ethmia in America north of Mexico. (2)

Several undescribed species.

Size

Forewing length 8.4-8.7 mm. (3)

Identification

The original description in PDF. (1)

Range

South Texas to Mexico. (2)

Holotype ♀, Texas, Zavalla County, Nueces River, no date. (4)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The adults are most common from March to April. (2)

See Also

Ethmia longimaculella which has the black marks elongated into short streaks instead of dots

Compare to others on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Busck, A. 1915. Descriptions of new North American Microlepidoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 17: 85. (1), (5)

Powell, J.A. 1973. Systematic Monograph of New World Ethmiid Moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). p. 209 (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington- Journal available for free at Internet Archive

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	A systematic monograph of New World ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Jerry A. Powell. 1973. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 120: 1-312.

4.	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.

5.	Descriptions of new North American microlepidoptera. August Busck. 1915. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 17(2): 79-94.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 26 March, 2011 - 8:51pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Steve Morris
Last updated 30 March, 2023 - 9:46am

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