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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Ethmiinae » Ethmia » semilugens group (Ethmia semilugens group) » discostrigella complex (Ethmia discostrigella complex) » Ethmia discostrigella - Hodges#0980 (Ethmia discostrigella)

Species Ethmia discostrigella - Hodges#0980

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Depressariidae
Subfamily Ethmiinae
Genus Ethmia
No Taxon (semilugens group)
No Taxon (discostrigella complex)
Species discostrigella (Ethmia discostrigella - Hodges#0980)
Hodges Number
0980
Other Common Names
Mountain-mahogany Moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ethmia discostrigella (Chambers, 1877)
Anesychia discostrigella Chambers, 1877
Size
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the forewing length 10-14 mm. (1)
Identification
Genitalia:
Range
Western Texas to California, northern Utah, Wyoming, and northern Oregon. (1)
Food
Mountain mahogany. (1)
Remarks
Powell & Opler (2009) reported this species to be the most common of the genus in North America with the adults often swarming around lights. (1)
Print References
(2)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 69; plate 5, fig. 24-25. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.A systematic monograph of New World ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea).
Jerry A. Powell. 1973. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 120: 1-312.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by tom murray on 20 July, 2006 - 11:47pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi, Steve Morris
Last updated 10 July, 2024 - 8:02pm

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