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Moved

Moved from Swammerdamia caesiella.

… Steve Nanz, 7 January, 2017 - 12:20pm

Sorry for the extra move

See Info page here for more information.

… Steve Nanz, 7 January, 2017 - 12:28pm

Moved

Moved from Swammerdamia.

… Steve Nanz, 14 December, 2016 - 8:54am

Moved

Moved from Tineoidea.

… A. Hendrickson, 12 December, 2014 - 5:33pm

Swammerdamia

The forewing is too squared off for Tineidae, and the strong coppery reflections are also a hint. This is one of the spp. of Swammerdamia (Yponomeutidae), probably S. caesiella.

… Terry Harrison, 12 December, 2014 - 5:26pm

Swammerdamia heroldella??

Hi Terry,

Could you take a look at the Info pages for me? I moved this to S. caesiella. The Poole (1996) list placed Swammerdamia heroldella Hübner, 1825 as a synonym of Tinea caesiella Hübner, 1796 and others followed suit. That would seem to make sense except that Hübner (1825), here, seems to have created heroldella as a replacement for caesiella. Duckworth (1965), here, seems to have it right with caesiella as a synonym of heroldella. Doganlar (1979), here also calls this heroldella.

There presently appear to be only three recognized species in NA. The other two, pyrella (Villers, 1789) and Swammerdamia beirnei Doganlar, 1979 appear to refer to the same species. Regardless, they have a dark grey thorax and as far as I can tell are known only from the northwest. There are two records at MPG for pyrella from IN and WI but it looks like both data points are the result of misidentification. S. pyrella and beirnei have a dark grey thorax. Tom's is pale and it's out of range for those two. I think Doganlar (1979) was trying to say that the species found in the northwest which were identified in Duckworth (1965) as pyrella referred instead to an undecribed species which he named beirnei. So pyrella would be considered a strictly old word species. But I'm not sure I'm getting all (or any?) of this right and could use some help. Thanks!

… Steve Nanz, 14 December, 2016 - 3:13pm

OOPS

I was afraid of a family choice on this one. Thank you for the correction. Will move NOW.

… A. Hendrickson, 12 December, 2014 - 5:32pm

Moved

Moved from Moths. The only thought I had was

considering your area.

… A. Hendrickson, 12 December, 2014 - 5:08pm

Tom, do you want to move this languishing submission to Family?

… A. Hendrickson, 12 December, 2014 - 11:42am

Family or Frass

Whichever you think is best.

… tom murray, 12 December, 2014 - 4:20pm