Homaledra
| Homaledra | |
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| File:Homaledra heptathalama (17174702479).jpg | |
| Homaledra heptathalama is sometimes known as the "exclamation moth" - see the wing pattern | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterolonchidae |
| Genus: | Homaledra Busck, 1900[1] |
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Homaledra is a small genus of at least four species small moth of the family Pterolonchidae native to North and South America.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]It was included in the family Coleophoridae by Ron Hodges in 1983. Hodges then moved it to the subfamily Batrachedrinae of the Batrachedridae in 1999.[1][2][3] In 2014, a cladistic analysis performed by Heikkilä et al., made them deem it necessary to reclassify the genus in the family Pterolonchidae.[4]
In 1997 Hodges moved the two South American species Pammeces citraula and P. crocoxysta to Homaledra.[5]
Species
[edit | edit source]The following species are known:[1]
- Homaledra citraula (Meyrick, 1922) - Peru
- Homaledra crocoxysta (Meyrick, 1922) - Brazil
- Homaledra heptathalama Busck, 1900 - Alabama, Florida and South Carolina.[6]
- Homaledra sabalella (Chambers, 1880) - Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas,[7] Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba.
Ecology
[edit | edit source]Homaledra heptathalama feeds in the folds on the undersides of the palm fronds, using silk bolstered with its frass to construct a small elongate chamber to which it adds, as it grows, successively larger, more or less rectangular, thick-walled, communicating rooms, usually building up to eight.[8]
Uses
[edit | edit source]At least two species are pests of palms in Florida.
References
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