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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Depressariidae » Incertae sedis » Machimia » Machimia trigama - Hodges#0952 (Machimia trigama)

Species Machimia trigama - Hodges#0952

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Machimia trigama - Hodges #0952 - Machimia trigama
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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 Depressariidae
No Taxon (Incertae sedis)
Genus Machimia
Species trigama (Machimia trigama - Hodges#0952)
Hodges Number
0952
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Machimia trigama (Meyrick, 1928)
Inga trigama (Meyrick, 1928)
Cryptolechia trigama Meyrick, 1928
Numbers
Machimia includes two species in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Meyrick (1928) listed wingspan as ♂ 20 mm.
Identification
The original description as Cryptolechia trigama Meyrick, is available online in the print references below.
Range
Western Texas to Mexico. (2), (3)
Holotype collected @ 5,000' in Jeff Davis County, Texas.
Print References
Clarke, J.F.G. 1941. Revision of the North American moths of the family Oecophoridae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of The United States National Museum, 90(3107): 224. (4)
Clarke, J.F.G. 1947. Notes on Occophoridae, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science, 37(1): 17. (5)
Hodges, R.W., 1974. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 6.2, p. 86, pl. A-3. (6)
Meyrick, E. 1928. Exotic Microlepidoptera, 476.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (2)
Works Cited
1.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
2.Butterflies of North America
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Revision of the North American moths of the family Oecophoridae, with descriptions of new genera and species
J. F. Gates Clarke. 1941. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 90(3107): 33-286.
5.Notes on Oecophoridae, with descriptions of new species
J.F.G. Clarke. 1947. Journal of The Washington Academy of Sciences, 37: 2-18.
6.The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 6.2 Gelechioidea, Oecophoridae
Ronald W. Hodges. 1974. E. W. Classey Ltd. and RBD Publications Inc.
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 June, 2013 - 12:05am
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 4:32pm

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