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Gelechioidea - Unplaced To Family 59a1858.5 – 0108   [Gelechioidea - no genus] belfragrella (Chambers, 1875)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: belfragrella (Chambers, 1875) (Nepticula) - MONA 1983: 0108   Type locality: Bosque Co., TX. belfrageella (Braun, 1917) (Nepticula) emend. belfragella; ([various], ([no date]) (Nepticula) missp. Taxonomic Notes: [Gelechioidea - no genus] belfragrella (Chambers, 1875), incorrectly spelled as belfrageella in Chambers (1878) (unjustified emendation), was formerly placed in Nepticulidae and is now regarded as belonging in Gelechiidae (Van Nieukerken et al. 2016).

References

Chambers, V.T., 1875. Tineina from Texas. The Canadian Entomologist, 7: 75. Chambers, V.T., 1878. Index to the described Tineina of the United States and Canada. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 4(5): 157. Van Nieukerken, E.J., C. Doorenweerd, R.J.B. Hoare, D.R. Davis, 2016. Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera, Nepticuloidea). ZooKeys, 628: 65-246.

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