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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 » Litini » Exoteleia » chillcotti or pinifoliella (Exoteleia chillcotti or pinifoliella) » Exoteleia pinifoliella complex - Hodges#1840 (Exoteleia pinifoliella)

Species Exoteleia pinifoliella - Exoteleia pinifoliella complex - Hodges#1840

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Print References · Internet References
Moth for ID - Exoteleia pinifoliella Pine Needleminer Moth - Hodges#1840 - Exoteleia pinifoliella Unknown Moth - Exoteleia pinifoliella Moth - Exoteleia pinifoliella micro moth - Exoteleia pinifoliella Exoteleia chillcotti - Exoteleia pinifoliella moth - Exoteleia pinifoliella Exoteleia pinifoliella
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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 Litini
Genus Exoteleia
No Taxon (chillcotti or pinifoliella)
Species pinifoliella (Exoteleia pinifoliella complex - Hodges#1840)
Hodges Number
1840
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Exoteleia pinifoliella
Gelechia pinifoliella Chambers, 1880
Explanation of Names
This may actually be a complex of multiple species. See Steve's comment here
Print References
Chambers, V.T. 1880. The Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Descriptions of some new Tineina, with notes on a few old species. 2: 181 - original description
Internet References
MPG
Contributed by Dennis Profant on 31 August, 2006 - 5:40pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Steve Nanz, tom murray, Chuck Entz
Last updated 29 May, 2015 - 5:17pm

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