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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Depressariinae » Agonopterix » Agonopterix oregonensis - Hodges#0861 (Agonopterix oregonensis)

Species Agonopterix oregonensis - Hodges#0861

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · 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 Depressariinae
Genus Agonopterix
Species oregonensis (Agonopterix oregonensis - Hodges#0861)
Hodges Number
0861
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Agonopterix oregonensis Clarke, 1941 (1)
Numbers
There are 49 species of the genus Agonopterix in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Forewing length 6-8.5 mm.(3)
Identification
Large photo of pinned adult at University of California, Berkeley
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (4)
Range
British Columbia to central California.(3)
Holotype ♂, Salem, Oregon, March, year unknown, E.L. Lansing. (5)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Powell & Opler (2009) reported adults seen May to June and from October to January. (3)
Moth Photographers Group has California records from February through November. (2)
Food
Larval hosts include :(3)
Desert parsley, Lomatium Raf.
Sanicle, Sanicula L.
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (2)
Print References
Clarke, J.F.G. 1942. Revision of the North American moths of the family Oecophoridae, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 3107. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 90, p. 65.(1)
Hodges, R.W., 1974. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 6.2. E. W. Classey Ltd. and RBD Publications Inc., p. 24; pl. 1.14-17.(6)
Powell, J.A., & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 4, fig. 45; p. 65. (3)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (7)
Works Cited
1.Proceedings of the United States National Museum- Journal available for free at Internet Archive
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
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.
6.The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 6.2 Gelechioidea, Oecophoridae
Ronald W. Hodges. 1974. E. W. Classey Ltd. and RBD Publications Inc.
7.Butterflies of North America
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 December, 2012 - 2:01pm
Last updated 12 March, 2014 - 8:04pm

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