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Species Homosetia marginimaculella - Hodges#0293

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Homosetia marginimaculella Homosetia marginimaculella Homosetia marginimaculella moth - Homosetia marginimaculella - male Tineidae: Homosetia marginimaculella - Homosetia marginimaculella Tineidae: Homosetia marginimaculella - Homosetia marginimaculella Tineidae: Homosetia marginimaculella - Homosetia marginimaculella Tineidae: Homosetia marginimaculella - Homosetia marginimaculella
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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Tineoidea (Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths)
Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)
No Taxon (Tineidae "Clade B" Regier et al., 2014)
Genus Homosetia
Species marginimaculella (Homosetia marginimaculella - Hodges#0293)

Hodges Number

0293

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homosetia marginimaculella (Chambers, 1875)
Tinea marginimaculella Chambers 1875

Size

Forewing length 4.8-7.5 mm. (1)

Identification

Chambers (1875) original description as Tinea marginimaculella is available online in the print references.

Range

Widespread in North America. (1)

Food

The larva have been reared on Poria incrassata (wood fungus). (1)

Remarks

Common at lights in coastal California. (1)

Print References

Chambers, V.T., 1875. Tineina from Canada. The Canadian Entomologist. 7: 212.
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. university of California Press, pl. 2, fig. 30; p. 50. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 May, 2013 - 12:49am
Last updated 30 September, 2014 - 2:21pm

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