Species Phycitodes mucidella - Hodges#5946

5946

Phycitodes mucidella (Ragonot, 1887)

Homoeosoma mucidella Ragonot, 1887

Homoeosoma albatella of authors, not Ragonot, 1887

Homoeosoma reliquellum Dyar, 1904

Phycitodes mucidella (Ragonot, 1887) is elevated from subspecies of Phycitodes albatella (now regarded as extralimital to North America) in Neunzig (1997) and includes as a synonym Phycitodes reliquellum (Dyar, 1904) in Scholtens & Hayden in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023)(1).

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length as 6.5-10 mm. (2)

"Smooth, obscure cinereous, thickly dusted with white on costal half. Lines obsolete, the inner represented by three black dots, the upper and lower of which are very small, the middle one more outwardly placed; outer line indicated by an outward blackish shade, curved, regular and even. Discal dots black, joined into a large spot in the male, narrowly separated in the female. Hind wings whitish, gray tinted along costa and outer edge. Expanse 15-16 mm... Nearly allied to Homceosoma mucidellum Rag. but smaller, smoother cinereous, the outer line very vague and slightly curved, discal dots approximated or fused..." - Dyar, 1904:112

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Larvae have been reared on: (2), (3)

Ragwort, Senecio.

Thistle, Cirsium.

Cudweed, Gnaphalium.

Gumweed, Grindelia.

Flowers of Packera obovata (Running Groundsel), Cirsium horridulum (Yellow Thistle), Pyrrhopappus carolinianus (Carolina Desert-chicory), Sonchus asper (Spiny-leaved Sow-thistle), Sonchus oleracea (Common Sow-thistle), Lactuca canadensis (Tall Lettuce) (Mass Moths)

Homoeosoma electella

Dyar, H. G. 1904. Additions to the list of North American Lepidoptera. No. 2. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 6 (2): 112.

Heinrich, 1956:226 (4)

Neunzig, H.H., 1997. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.4. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 117; pl. 4.37. (3)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 26, fig. 35; p. 194. (2)

Ragonot, E.L. 1887. Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae and Galleriidae. – Published by the author, Paris. 1–20.

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6) (Phycitodes mucidellus)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6) (Phycitodes mucidella)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6) (Phycitodes reliquellus)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6) (Phycitodes reliquella)