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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Scavenger Moths (Blastobasidae) » Scavenger Moths (Blastobasinae) » Blastobasini » Blastobasis » Blastobasis floridella - Hodges#1160 (Blastobasis floridella)

Species Blastobasis floridella - Hodges#1160

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Scavenger Moth - Blastobasis floridella
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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 Blastobasidae (Scavenger Moths)
Subfamily Blastobasinae (Scavenger Moths)
Tribe Blastobasini
Genus Blastobasis
Species floridella (Blastobasis floridella - Hodges#1160)
Hodges Number
1160
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Blastobasis floridella (Dietz, 1910) (1)(2)
Valentinia floridella Dietz, 1910
Numbers
There are thirteen named species of Blastobasis in America north of Mexico. (3)
Size
Wingspan 11-16 mm.
Identification
Original description is available online in the print references below.
Range
Southeastern U.S.
Holotype ♂, Crescent City, Florida, 4-VI-1895. (4)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data. (3)
Food
Larval host is Zamia pumila L., [syn. Zamia integrifolia] Alton
Remarks
See Dietze (1910). Identifications at BOLD (5) are based on CNCLEP00025516 in BIN group BOLD:AAB1097, which was dissected and tentatively identified by David Adamski. However, it was not reared and it does not match the lectotype or does it match the original description and illustration. David Adamski (pers. comm., 2024) has implied that without host, identification is uncertain. BOLD:AAB1097 might refer to Blastobasis pulchella. The specimens match the description and DNA barcode places it as the nearest BIN group to CNCLEP00105947, a paratype of pulchella.
Print References
Baldizzone, G., et.al 2006. World Catalogue Of Insects: Coleophoridae, Coleophorinae (Lepidoptera), 8: (2)
Dietz, 1910: 17.(1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Blastobasidae of North America
Dietze, W.G. 1910. Transactions of the American Entomological Society.
2.World Catalogue Of Insects: Coleophoridae, Coleophorinae (Lepidoptera) Volume 8
G. Baldizzone, J-F. Landry, H. Van Der Wolf. 2006. Apollo Books.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.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.
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 December, 2012 - 9:02pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 1 March, 2024 - 1:41pm

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