Species Blastodacna bicristatella - Hodges#1460

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Blastodacna bicristatella (Chambers, 1875)

Gelechia bicristatella Chambers, 1875

Blastodacna curvilineella (misapplied name, see Explanation of Names below)

Forbes (1920) p. 329 appears to have erroneously applied the name "B. curvilineella Chambers [sic]" to what was actually Blastodacna bicristatella (Chambers, 1875), an error carried forward by Hodges 1966. As a result, lists show both Batrachedra curvilineella (Chambers, 1872) and Blastodacna curvilineella (Chambers, 1872). Blastodacna curvilineella is not a valid species and specimens identified as that species, such as those at BOLD, usually pertain to Blastodacna bicristatella.

Note: May 16-18 - Actually, it was Wellhouse the year before with the incorrect spelling and wrong name from Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Memoir #56 in 1922: The Insect Fauna of the Genus Crataegus. He describes the caterpillar.

Larvae feed in hawthorn fruits (Crataegus)

Chambers, V.T. 1875. Tineana from Canada. The Canadian Entomologist. 7: 210

Forbes, W.T.M 1923 (1920) The Lepidopteras of New York and neighboring states, primitive forms Microlepidoptera, Pyraloids, Bombyces. Memior 68:329 (Blastodacna curvilineella)

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (1)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)