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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Stenomatinae » Menestomorpha » Menestomorpha kimballi - Hodges#1029 (Menestomorpha kimballi)

Species Menestomorpha kimballi - Hodges#1029

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Menestomorpha kimballi? - Menestomorpha kimballi

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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 Stenomatinae

Genus Menestomorpha

Species kimballi (Menestomorpha kimballi - Hodges#1029)

Hodges Number

1029

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Menestomorpha kimballi (Duckworth, 1964) (1)

Mothonica kimballi Duckworth, 1964 (2), (1)

Explanation of Names

Species named in honor of C. P. Kimball who provided the specimens for the original description. (2)

Numbers

There are two named species of Menestomorpha in America north of Mexico. (3), (1)

Size

Wingspan 17-19 mm. (2)

Identification

Forewing: (2)

Ground color white with three large shaded areas along the costa.

Rows of transverse dark dots along terminal and subterminal area.

Dark patch of raised scales at inner margin of wing base.

Range

Florida. (4)

Holotype Siesta Key, Sarasota County, Florida, 24-I-1954. (5)

Moth Photographers Group map

Season

Adults have been recorded year round in Florida. (3)

See Also

Compare to related species on the pinned plates at Moth Photographers Group (3)

Print References

Duckworth, D.W. 1964. North American Stenomidae (Lepidopters: Gelechioidea). Proceedings of the United States Museum of Natural History, 115(3495): 47. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Dalton State University

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	Proceedings of the United States National Museum- Journal available for free at Internet Archive

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

5.	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.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 December, 2012 - 1:27pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 9:40pm

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