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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Autostichidae » Glyphidocerinae » Glyphidocera » Juniper Tip Moth  - Hodges#1136.1 (Glyphidocera juniperella)

Species Glyphidocera juniperella - Juniper Tip Moth - Hodges#1136.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Glyphidocera juniperella Juniper Tip Moth - Hodges#1136.1 - Glyphidocera juniperella Glyphidocera juniperella Juniper Tip Moth – Hodges #1136.1 - Glyphidocera juniperella Glyphidocera juniperella - Juniper Tip Moth - Glyphidocera juniperella Hodges #1136.1 - Juniper Tip Moth? - Glyphidocera juniperella - female Hodges #1136.1 - Juniper Tip Moth? - Glyphidocera juniperella - female Glyphidocera juniperella
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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 Autostichidae
Subfamily Glyphidocerinae
Genus Glyphidocera
Species juniperella (Juniper Tip Moth - Hodges#1136.1)
Hodges Number
1136.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Glyphidocera juniperella Adamski, 1987 (1)
Size
Forewing length 7-8.5 mm. (1)
Identification
Decription of adult and complete life cycle is in PDF. (1)
Specimen determined by DNA. (BOLD) (2)
Range
Southeastern United States. (3), (4), (5), (1)
Holotype ♂, Mississippi, Monroe County, Amfac Nursery, 25-VIII-1981, D. Tatum. (6)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
March to October. (7), (1)
Food
Larval host is juniper. (1), (5)
Remarks
Considered a pest of juniper especially prostrate species. (1)
See Also
Several other Glyphidocera species are similar such as G. septentrionella

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Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Adamski, D., & R.L. Brown 1987. A new Nearctic Glyphidocera with descriptions of all stages. (Lepidoptera: Blastobasidae: Symmocinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 89(2): (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (7)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)
Lepbarcoding.org
Works Cited
1.A new Nearctic Glyphidocera with descriptions of all stages (Lepidoptera: Blastobasidae: Symmocinae)
D. Adamski, R. L. Brown. 1987. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 89(2): 329-343.
2.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
3.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
4.South Carolina Moth Species
5.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
6.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.
7.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 December, 2011 - 8:28pm
Last updated 9 April, 2014 - 11:26am

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