Species Homosetia costisignella - Hodges#0289 (original) (raw)

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 costisignella (Homosetia costisignella - Hodges#0289)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homosetia costisignella (Clemens, 1863)

Tinea costisignella Clemens, 1863

Diachorisia costisignella (1)

Numbers

There are 12 species of the genus Homosetia in America north of Mexico.(2), (3)

Size

Wingspan about 10-12 mm. (4), (1)

Identification

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Range

Scattered records from southern Quebec and Maine, south to South Carolina and Tennessee, west to Missouri. Also seen in Arizona and Washington. (3), (5), (6), (4), (1)

Season

The flight period appears to be April to September with the peak from June to August. (3)

Print References

Clemens, B., 1863. American Micro-Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 128.

Works Cited