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Gracillariidae 33a0215 – 0614   "Caloptilia" murtfeldtella (Busck, 1904)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: murtfeldtella (Busck, 1904) (Gracilaria [sic]) mispl. - MONA 1983: 614 Taxonomic Notes: "Caloptilia" murtfeldtella (Busck, 1904), prov. pl. in Eiseman & Davis in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023) following Kawahara et al. (2017).

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) Busck, A., 1904. Tineid moths from British Columbia, with decriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 27: 771. Kawahara, A. Y., Plotkin, D., Ohshima, I., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Houlihan, P. R., Breinholt, J. W., Kawakita, A., Xiao, L., Regier, J. C., Davis, D. R., Kumata, T., Sohn, J.-C., De Prins, J. & Mitter, C., 2017. A molecular phylogeny and revised higher-level classification for the leaf- mining moth family Gracillariidae and its implications for larval host-use evolution. Systematic Entomology, 42: 60-8. 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 Species Page at Microleps.org

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