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Plutellidae 36a0181 – 2364.1   Rhigognostis senilella (Zetterstedt, 1839)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: senilella (Zetterstedt, 1839) (Plutella)   Type locality: Greenland dalella (Stainton, 1849) (Plutella) marmorosella (Wocke, 1850) (Plutella) septentrionum (Staudinger, 1857) (Plutella) Taxonomic Notes: Rhigognostis senilella (Zetterstedt, 1839), a species described from Greenland and only found in Europe and Greenland, was omitted from Hodges et al. (1983) (Checklist) but subsequently included in Sohn (in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023).

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced. 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). Zetterstedt, J.W., 1839. Lepidoptera. Insecta Lapponica, 4: 1001.

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