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Gelechiidae 59a0459 – 2218   Aproaerema adversa (Braun, 1930)

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Description/ Field Marks: See Braun, 1930:7. Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: adversa (Braun, 1930) (Stomopteryx) N. COMB. - MONA 1983: 2218 Taxonomic Notes: Aproaerema adversa (Braun, 1930), n. comb. inferred by Aarvik, et al. (2017) and formalized by Lee & Landry in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023), was formerly in the genus Syncopacma.

References

Aarvik, L., B.Å. Bengtsson, H. Elven, P. Ivinskis, U. Jürivete, O. Karsholt, M. Mutanen, N. Savenkov, 2017. Nordic-Baltic Checklist of Lepidoptera. Norwegian Journal of Entomology, Supplement 3: 1-236. Braun, A.F., 1930. Notes and new species of Microlepidoptera from the mineral springs region of Adams County, Ohio. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 56: 1-17. Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order). Species Page at BugGuide.Net

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