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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 siren - Hodges#2279.3 (Dichomeris siren)

Species Dichomeris siren - Hodges#2279.3

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

2294.99 - Dichomeris siren - Dichomeris siren

Least Dichomeris, 2279.3 - Dichomeris siren

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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 siren (Dichomeris siren - Hodges#2279.3)

Hodges Number

2279.3

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichomeris siren Hodges, 1986 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 070000

Size

Forewing length 3.1-3.8 mm.

Identification

Adult - forewing brown with continuous yellowish-orange strip that begins about two-thirds distance along costa, runs diagonally to inner margin, angles back to costa and continues to base; terminal area yellowish-orange with line of brown spots; yellowish-orange patch along inner margin near base; fringe yellowish; hindwing slender, grayish-brown with long fringe of same color.

Range

Eastern North America.

Holotype ♂ collected at Henson Creek, Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland (7 August 1978). (2)

Season

The adult flight period is May to October.

Print References

Hodges, R.W., 1986. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p.64; pl.4.9. (1)

(3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

adult images and date (Larry Line, Maryland)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the NMNH, Smithsonian Institution Brown, J.W, D. Adamski, R.W. Hodges & S.M. Bahr, II. 2004. Zootaxa 510: 160 pp.

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.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 October, 2006 - 2:30pm
Additional contributions by Bob Patterson, Beatriz Moisset, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 12 September, 2013 - 12:34am

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