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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Burrowing Webworm Moths (Acrolophinae) » Amydria » Amydria margoriella - Hodges#0335 (Amydria margoriella)

Species Amydria margoriella - Hodges#0335

Amydria dyarella, 0333 - Amydria margoriella

Burrowing Webworm Moth - Hodges #0335 - Amydria margoriella

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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 Amydria

Species margoriella (Amydria margoriella - Hodges#0335)

Hodges Number

0335

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Amydria margoriella Dietz, 1905 (1)

Incorrectly spelled Amydria marjoriella Busck, 1906

Explanation of Names

Dietz named the species after his daughter, Margorie. (1)

Size

Wingspan 11-16 mm. (1)

Range

Texas to Florida. (2), (3)

Kentucky, Ohio records on Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Mexico to Central America.

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Season

Year round in Florida and April through December in Texas.

Print References

Dietz, W.G., 1905. Revision of the genera and species of Tineid subfamilies Amydriinae and Tineinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 31: 10-11, pl. 3, fig. 5. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 27 April, 2012 - 11:03pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Blocky
Last updated 29 January, 2019 - 3:49pm

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