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Species Homosetia costisignella - Hodges#0289

0289 (Homosetia costisignella) - Homosetia costisignella

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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)

No Taxon (Tineidae "Clade B" Regier et al., 2014)

Genus Homosetia

Species costisignella (Homosetia costisignella - Hodges#0289)

Hodges Number

0289

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homosetia costisignella (Clemens, 1863)

Tinea costisignella Clemens, 1863

Diachorisia costisignella (1)

Numbers

There are 12 species of the genus Homosetia in America north of Mexico.(2), (3)

Size

Wingspan about 10-12 mm. (4), (1)

Identification

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Range

Scattered records from southern Quebec and Maine, south to South Carolina and Tennessee, west to Missouri. Also seen in Arizona and Washington. (3), (5), (6), (4), (1)

Season

The flight period appears to be April to September with the peak from June to August. (3)

Print References

Clemens, B., 1863. American Micro-Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 128.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States William T.M. Forbes. 1923. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Memoir 68.

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Revision of the genera and species of the tineid subfamilies Amydriinae and Tineinae inhabiting North America Wm. G. Dietz. 1905. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 31: 1-96.

5.	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.

6.	South Carolina Moth Species

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by v belov on 15 April, 2011 - 10:55am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 29 March, 2024 - 12:37am

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