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Species Dichomeris bipunctellus - Hodges#2274

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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 bipunctellus (Dichomeris bipunctellus - Hodges#2274)

Hodges Number

2274

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichomeris bipunctella (Walsingham, 1882) (1)

Ypsolophus bipunctella Walsingham 1882

Numbers

Powell & Opler (2009) stated there are 84(?) described species of the genus Dichomeris in America north of Mexico. (2)

Moth Photographers Group (2014) lists 74 described species. (3)

Identification

Determined by Sangmi Lee and Bob Patterson.

Range

Coastal areas including Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas. (4), (5), (3), (6)

Print References

Hodges, R.W., 1986. the Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 7.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 78; plate 2, figs. 5-6. (7)

Walsingham, 1882. Notes on teh Tineidae of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 10: 186

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)

Works Cited

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

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

5.	South Carolina Moth Species

6.	Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.

7.	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.

8.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 September, 2013 - 8:48pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Blocky
Last updated 17 May, 2018 - 4:35am

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