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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Tineidae "Clade B" Regier et al., 2014 » Homosetia » Homosetia fasciella - Hodges#0291 (Homosetia fasciella)

Species Homosetia fasciella - Hodges#0291

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

Homosetia fasciella - Homosetia fasciella

Homosetia Moth - Hodges #0287 - Homosetia fasciella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Tineoidea (Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths)

Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)

No Taxon (Tineidae "Clade B" Regier et al., 2014)

Genus Homosetia

Species fasciella (Homosetia fasciella - Hodges#0291)

Hodges Number

0291

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homosetia fasciella (Chambers, 1873)

Pitys fasciella Chambers, 1873

Numbers

There are 12 named species of the genus Homosetia in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)

Identification

Determined by Terry Harrison.

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Range

Alberta eastward across Canada; scattered records throughout the United States. (3) , (4), (5), (6)

Holotype collected in Kentucky.

Season

The main flight period is May to August, but the species has been recorded every month. (2)

Food

Homosetia fasciella is one of the fungus feeders.

Print References

Chambers, V.T., 1873. Micro-Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 5: 111.

Chambers, V.T., 1877. Tineina. The Canadian Entomologist, 9(1): 207.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	A List of the Lepidoptera of Maine. Part 2, The Microlepidoptera. Section 1 & 2 Auburn E. Brower. 1984. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 114: 1-70.

5.	Kentucky Butterfly Net Database (moths also)

6.	An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada Gregory R. Pohl, Gary G. Anweiler, B. Christian Schmidt, Norbert G. Kondla. 2010. ZooKeys 38: 1–549.

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 31 October, 2013 - 10:29am
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 5:10pm

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