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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Anomologinae » Aristotelia » Aristotelia adceanotha - Hodges#1726 (Aristotelia adceanotha)

Species Aristotelia adceanotha - Hodges#1726

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Moth for ID - 1726 ? - Aristotelia adceanotha

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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 adceanotha (Aristotelia adceanotha - Hodges#1726)

Hodges Number

1726

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Aristotelia adceanotha Keifer, 1935 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence #420639.00

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for the larval host genus.

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 4.5-5 mm. (2)

Wingspan 11-12 mm. (1)

Mature larvae to 8 mm. (1)

Range

California; Nevada(3). (4), (2)

Moth Photographers Group has records from California to Oregon(?)

Season

Adults have been recorded from March to October. (5)

Food

Larvae have been collected on Ceanothus cuneatus (Hook.) Nutt. (buckbrush). (1), (2)

Print References

Keifer, H.H., 1935. California microlepidoptera VII. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California, 24: 203. (1)

Powell, J.A., & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 7, fig. 38; p. 86. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Gelechiidae by SangMi Lee

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (3)

Hartford Hammond Keifer (1902–1986)

Works Cited

1.	California microlepidoptera VII. Hartford H. Keifer. 1935. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California, 24: 195-218.

2.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

3.	Butterflies of North America

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 April, 2013 - 9:05pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 3 April, 2018 - 3:19pm

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