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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pygmy Leafmining Moths (Nepticuloidea) » Opostegidae » Oposteginae » Pseudopostega » Pseudopostega albogaleriella - Hodges#0121 (Pseudopostega albogaleriella)

Species Pseudopostega albogaleriella - Hodges#0121

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

Moth for ID - Pseudopostega albogaleriella

Pseudopostega? - Pseudopostega albogaleriella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Nepticuloidea (Pygmy Leafmining Moths)

Family Opostegidae

Subfamily Oposteginae

Genus Pseudopostega

Species albogaleriella (Pseudopostega albogaleriella - Hodges#0121)

Hodges Number

0121

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pseudopostega albogaleriella (Clemens, 1862)

Opostega albogalleriella [sic], Forbes, 1923 (1)

O. napaeella Clemens, 1872

Pseudopostega bistrigulella Braun, 1918

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 3-6 mm. (2)

Range

Heppner (2003) reported Massachusetts to Florida(3); Arkansas to Texas. (4)

McAlpine & Smith (2010) reported Nova Scotia. (5)

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the range to include the northeastern states to Florida and eastern Texas with disjunct population in California and Arizona. (2)

Listed on the Oklahoma checklist. (6)

Season

Heppner (2003) reported February; September; December in Florida. (4)

Powell & Opler (2009) reported adults from February to May; August in southern California. (2)

Food

Heppner (2003) listed the host unknown. (4)

Print References

Davis,D.R., 1989. Generic revision of the Opostegidae, with a synoptic catalog of the World's Species (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 478. (7)

Davis,D.R. & J.R. Stonis, 2007. A revision of the New World plant-mining moths of the family Opostegidae (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea) Opostegidae (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea).. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 625. p. 70; figs. 12–14, 22, 27–29, 33, 37, 43, 47, 109–126, 156–159, 297, 298, 441–443; Map 6. (8)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 38; plate 1, figs. 15-17. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (9)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (10)

Microleps.org (Opostegidae notes)

Works Cited

1.	The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States William T.M. Forbes. 1923. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Memoir 68.

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

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

5.	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.

6.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

7.	Generic revision of the Opostegidae, with a synoptic catalog of the World's Species (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea) Donald R. Davis. 1989. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 478.

8.	A revision of the New World plant-mining moths of the family Opostegidae (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea) .... Donald R. Davis, Jonas R. Stonis. 2007. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 625:.

9.	North American Moth Photographers Group

10.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 January, 2014 - 8:54am
Last updated 25 January, 2014 - 11:13am

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