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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Gelechiinae » Gelechiini » Chionodes » formosella group (Chionodes formosella group) » formosella complex (Chionodes formosella complex) » Chionodes bicostomaculella - Hodges#2064 (Chionodes bicostomaculella)

Species Chionodes bicostomaculella - Hodges#2064

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References

Black and gray moth - Chionodes bicostomaculella

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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 Gelechiidae (Twirler Moths)

Subfamily Gelechiinae

Tribe Gelechiini

Genus Chionodes

No Taxon (formosella group)

No Taxon (formosella complex)

Species bicostomaculella (Chionodes bicostomaculella - Hodges#2064)

Hodges Number

2064

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chionodes bicostomaculella (Chambers, 1872)

Explanation of Names

Latin: Bi (two) + costo (costa) + macul (spot) + ella (small) = two little costal spots?

Range

Eastern U.S., west to Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas.

Type locality: KY

Moth Photographers Group – distribution & flight-period chart

Food

Quercus

Remarks

Hodges (1999) was unable to locate the type specimen(s) but located a specimen identified by Chambers which he designated as neotype. His description should be followed even though it seems to deviate from that of Chambers.

See Also

Other species in the C. formosella complex:

Chionodes fuscomaculella has forewing with yellow scales.

Chionodes formosella has forewing with orange scales.

Chionodes powelli has forewing with orange scales.

Print References

Chambers, V.T. 1872. Micro-lepidoptera. Canadian Entomologist. 4(7): 127.

Hodges, R. W., 1999. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.6, p. 54; pl. 1.7-9.

Internet References

MPG

BOLD

BOLD:ACG7175; BOLD:AAD4902 [12 spmns: 3 imber, 2 bicostomaculella, 1 obscurusella]

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 19 January, 2013 - 12:31pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert Lord Zimlich, Chuck Sexton, Blocky
Last updated 30 November, 2022 - 6:57pm

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