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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 » Theisoa » Theisoa constrictella - Hodges#1722 (Theisoa constrictella)

Species Theisoa constrictella - Hodges#1722

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1722 - Theisoa constrictella (Anomologinae) - Theisoa constrictella Moth - Theisoa constrictella Theisoa constrictella micro moth - Theisoa constrictella moth - Theisoa constrictella Please help us to identify this moth. - Theisoa constrictella #1722 - Theisoa constrictella? - Theisoa constrictella Theisoa constrictella
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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 Theisoa
Species constrictella (Theisoa constrictella - Hodges#1722)
Hodges Number
1722
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Oecophora constrictella
Numbers
one of 3 species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps
Size
Size compared to Perispasta caeculalis:
Identification
Adult: forewing slender, lance-shaped; basal third brown, edged in black distally; remainder of wing paler brown with yellowish AM line and blackish triangle half-way along costa, bordered distally by a yellowish wedge; black discal dot near middle of wing; hindwing consists of a spike-like midrib with very long fringe of pale hair-like scales; thorax brown; base of abdomen pale yellow; remainder of abdomen dark gray to blackish, sometimes with pale yellow tip
Range
southeastern United States: Texas to Florida, north to Maryland and Kentucky
Season
adults fly in spring (May in Maryland)
Food
The HOSTS website gives the host plant as being various species of Ulmus (elm).
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG)
Barcode of Life (BOLD)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 October, 2006 - 1:57pm
Additional contributions by Ken Childs, Kyhl Austin, Steve Morris
Last updated 13 July, 2022 - 9:39am

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