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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 delotella - Hodges#2294 (Dichomeris delotella)

Species Dichomeris delotella - Hodges#2294

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · 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 delotella (Dichomeris delotella - Hodges#2294)

Hodges Number

2294

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichomeris delotella Busck, 1909 (1)

Numbers

The genus Dichomeris includes more than 74 species in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Forewing length 6-8 mm. (3)

Identification

Range

Southeastern California, including Santa Cruz Island, and Arizona to Sonora, Mexico. (4), (5), (3)

Holotype collected in the Baboquivari Mountains, Pima, Arizona. (6)

Season

Powell & Opler (2009) reported adults in Arizona from March to September and California from July to September. (3)

Food

Larval host plants are thought to be Solidago and Eupatorium. (3)

Print References

Busck, A. 1909. Notes on Microlepidoptera with descriptions of new North American species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 11: 90. (1)

Hodges, R.W., 1986. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.1, p. 86; pl. 2.16-17. (6)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America, pl. 10.33, p. 102. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (8)

Works Cited

1.	Notes on microlepidoptera with descriptions of new North American species August Busck. 1909. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 11: 87-103.

2.	Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico Lee S., Hodges R.W., Brown R.L. 2009. Zootaxa 2231: 1–39.

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

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

6.	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.

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

8.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 June, 2013 - 7:13pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 4:47pm

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