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Species Blastobasis floridella - Hodges#1160

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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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