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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Gelechiinae » Gelechiini » Pseudochelaria » Pseudochelaria scabrella - Hodges#1863 (Pseudochelaria scabrella)

Species Pseudochelaria scabrella - Hodges#1863

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · 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 Gelechiinae

Tribe Gelechiini

Genus Pseudochelaria

Species scabrella (Pseudochelaria scabrella - Hodges#1863)

Hodges Number

1863

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pseudochelaria scabrella (Busck, 1913) (1)

Gelechia scabrella Busck 1913 (2)

Numbers

There are five species of the genus Pseudochelaria listed for America, north of Mexico. (3), (4)

Size

Forewing length 7.5-9.5 mm. (5)

Range

Southern California to Washington.

Season

Adults are reported year round in southern California.

Food

Powell and Opler. 2009) listed two hosts. (5)

Arbutus insularis

Comarostaphylis diversifolia

Miller & Hammond (2003) listed Arctostaphylos columbiana (6)

Print References

Busck, A., 1913. New Californian Microlepidoptera. Journal of Entomology and Zoology, 98. (2)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 8, fig. 9; p. 88. (5)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

University of California, Berkeley

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	Restriction of the genus Gelechia (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), with descriptions of new genera August Busck. 1939. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 86(3064): 563-593.

2.	New Californian Microlepidoptera August Busck. 1913. Journal of Entomology and Zoology 5: 96-102 .

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

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

6.	Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest: Caterpillars and Adults Miller & Hammond. 2003. USDA.

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 July, 2013 - 7:12pm
Last updated 7 February, 2014 - 10:51am

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