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Species Euclemensia bassettella - Kermes Scale Moth - Hodges#1467


Notes on Cosmopterygidae with descriptions of new genera and species (microlepidoptera).
By Annette F. Braun
Entomological News 30(9), 1919
Online here.

The genus Perimede Chambers in North America North of Mexico (Lepidoptera: Walshiidae)
By Hodges, R. W.
Entomological Society of Washington, 1962
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 64 (3): 145-154

The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 6.1, Gelechioidea, Antequerinae, Cosmopteriginae, Chrysopeleiinae.
By Hodges, R. W.
London: E. W. Classey Ltd. and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 166 pp, 1978
In Domonick, R. B., T. Dominick, and C. R. Edwards (eds.). The moths of America north of Mexico. Fascicle 6.1.

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Nearctic Walshiidae notes and new taxa (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
By Hodges, R. W.
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 18: 1-30, 1969
The Hodges 1969 paper is downloadable here

A revision of the Cosmopterigidae of America north of Mexico, with a definition of the Momphidae and Walshiidae
By Hodges, R. W.
Entomologica Americana 42 (N. S.): 1-166, 1962

Notes on Microlepidoptera with descriptions of new species
By Braun, A.F.
Entomological news, 32: 8-18, 1923
Braun, A.F., 1923. Notes on Microlepidoptera with descriptions of new species. Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 32: 8-18.

Phylogeny and feeding trait evolution of the mega-diverse Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera)...
By Sohn, J.C., J.C. Regier, C. Mitter, D. Adamski, J.F. Landry, M. Heikkilä, K.T. Park, T. Harrison, K. Mitter, A. Zwick, A.Y. Kaw
Systematic Entomology, 41(1): 112–132., 2016
Sohn, J.C., J.C. Regier, C. Mitter, D. Adamski, J.F. Landry, M. Heikkilä, K.T. Park, T. Harrison, K. Mitter, A. Zwick, A.Y. Kawahara, S. Cho, M.P. Cummings & P. Schmitz, 2016. Phylogeny and feeding trait evolution of the mega-diverse Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera): new insight from 19 nuclear genes. Systematic Entomology, 41(1): 112–132.

Abstract and link to fee based access here.

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Microlepidoptera of Northern Utah
By Braun, Annette
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 51(3), 183-226, 1925
Descriptions of new species, including: Isophrictis occidentalis, Aristotelia amelanchierella, Aristotelia planitia, Gnorimoschema consueta, Gnorimoschema macromaculata, Gelechia fructuaria, Gelechia prognosticata, Brachmia casca.

Available online (requires JSTOR access) here