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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Dichomeridinae » Dichomeris » Dichomeris pelta - Hodges#2297.1 (Dichomeris pelta)

Species Dichomeris pelta - Hodges#2297.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Dichomeridinae

Genus Dichomeris

Species pelta (Dichomeris pelta - Hodges#2297.1)

Hodges Number

2297.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichomeris pelta Hodges, 1986 (1)

Numbers

There are more than 75 species of Dichomeris in America north of Mexico. (2)

Identification

Described in The Moths of America North of Mexico: Fascicle 7.1. (1)

Range

South Carolina(3) to Florida(4). (2), (5)

Holotype ♀ collected South Carolina, Charleston Co., McClellanville, Wedge Plantation. (1), (6)

Moth Photographers Group map

Season

Most records of adults are from Jan-Jun, Oct, Dec. (2), (5)

Food

Larval host is unknown. (5)

See Also

Compare to others on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico: Fascicle 7.1, Revision of North American Gelechiidae family and... Hodges, R. W. 1986. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	South Carolina Moth Species

4.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

5.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

6.	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.

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 March, 2013 - 5:10pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 7:06pm

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