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Species Aristotelia rubidella - Hodges#1762

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Ruby Aristotelia Moth - Hodges #1762 - Aristotelia rubidella moth - Aristotelia rubidella Aristotelia Moth - Hodges #1762 - Aristotelia rubidella Aristotelia rubidella - Aristotelia rubidella Aristotelia rubidella Micro Moth ID - Aristotelia rubidella NMW2017 Moth #50 - Aristotelia rubidella Aristotelia rubidella ? - Aristotelia rubidella
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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 Anomologinae
Genus Aristotelia
Species rubidella (Aristotelia rubidella - Hodges#1762)

Hodges Number

1762

Other Common Names

Ruby Aristotelia (1)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Aristotelia rubidella (Clemens, 1860) (2)
Gelechia ? rubidella Clemens, 1860 (3)
Phylogenetic sequence #051125

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "red."

Size

Total length 5-7 mm. (1)

Identification

"The interstices between the black markings in the costal half of the FW need to be contrastingly white (or whitish) for it to be roseosuffusella." Terry Harrison

Range

North Carolina west to Oklahoma, south to Florida and Texas. (1)

See Also

Aristotelia roseosuffusella

Print References

Clemens, B., 1860. Contributions to American lepidopterology - No. 4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 163. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group
BOLD Systems
Brackenridge Clemens (1825-1867)

Works Cited

1.Perterson field guide to moths of southeastern North America.
Seabrooke Leckie & David Beadle. 2018. Peterson Field Guides, 652 pp.
2.A revision of the American moths of the family Gelechiidae, with descriptions of new species
August Busck. 1903. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25: 767-938.
3.Contributions to American lepidopterology - No. 4.
Brackenridge Clemens. 1860. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 156-174.
Contributed by tom murray on 3 September, 2006 - 6:47am
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 7 April, 2018 - 3:29pm

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