Aristotelia argentifera: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Aristotelia
- Species
- Aristotelia argentifera
- Scientific Name
- Aristotelia argentifera
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Aristotelia argentifera
Aristotelia argentifera is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by August Busck in 1903. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California and western Nevada.
The wingspan is 10.5-11.5 mm. The forewings are clear, deep brown, overlaid on the costal half with dark, blackish brown. From near base of the costa is an outwardly directed oblique white fascia, reaching nearly to the dorsal margin, and edged and continued by strongly metallic silvery and bluish iridescent scales. At the middle of the wing is a costal white dash, continued downward and slightly inward nearly to the dorsal edge by a fascia of metallic scales. At the beginning of the costal cilia is a similar larger white dash, continued obliquely inward and downward by a line of metallic scales. Between the first and the second fascia is an additional smaller white costal spot, edged by metallic scales, and at the extreme apex is an ill-defined small group of white scales. From the very base of the wing outward and downward is a thin line of iridescent and silvery white scales, and single iridescent scales are found irregularly and sparsely in the other part of the wing. The hindwings are light silvery fuscous.
The larvae feed on Ericameria ericoides and Baccharis pilularis.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Aristotelia accipiter
- Aristotelia achyrobathra
- Aristotelia adceanotha
- Aristotelia adenostomae
- Aristotelia amelanchierella
- Aristotelia aquosa
- Aristotelia arenella
- Aristotelia argentifera
- Aristotelia argodecta
- Aristotelia articulata
- Aristotelia balanocentra
- Aristotelia baltica
- Aristotelia benedenii
- Aristotelia bicomis
- Aristotelia bifasciella
- Aristotelia billii
- Aristotelia brizella
- Aristotelia brizelloidea
- Aristotelia calastomella
- Aristotelia calens
- Aristotelia callirrhoda
- Aristotelia callyntrophora
- Aristotelia chlorographa
- Aristotelia citrocosma
- Aristotelia coeruleopictella
- Aristotelia comis
- Aristotelia confusella
- Aristotelia corallina
- Aristotelia decoratella
- Aristotelia decurtella
- Aristotelia devexella
- Aristotelia diolcella
- Aristotelia drosocrypta
- Aristotelia dryonota
- Aristotelia eldorada
- Aristotelia elegantella
- Aristotelia epacria
- Aristotelia ericinella
- Aristotelia eumeris
- Aristotelia eupatoriella
- Aristotelia euprepella
- Aristotelia frankeniae
- Aristotelia fungivorella
- Aristotelia galeotis
- Aristotelia heliacella
- Aristotelia hexacopa
- Aristotelia howardi
- Aristotelia iospora
- Aristotelia isopelta
- Aristotelia ivae
- Aristotelia leonhardi
- Aristotelia lespedezae
- Aristotelia lignicolora
- Aristotelia lindanella
- Aristotelia melanaphra
- Aristotelia mirabilis
- Aristotelia mirandella
- Aristotelia modulatrix
- Aristotelia molestella
- Aristotelia monilella
- Aristotelia montarcella
- Aristotelia naxia
- Aristotelia nigrobasiella
- Aristotelia ochroxysta
- Aristotelia pancaliella
- Aristotelia paradesma
- Aristotelia penicillata
- Aristotelia planitia
- Aristotelia primipilana
- Aristotelia prohaskaella
- Aristotelia psoraleae
- Aristotelia ptilastis
- Aristotelia pudibundella
- Aristotelia pullusella
- Aristotelia rhamnina
- Aristotelia rhoisella
- Aristotelia rhopalovalva
- Aristotelia roseosuffusella
- Aristotelia rubidella
- Aristotelia salicifungiella
- Aristotelia sarcodes
- Aristotelia schematias
- Aristotelia staticella
- Aristotelia subdecurtella
- Aristotelia subericinella
- Aristotelia swierstrae
- Aristotelia swierstrai
- Aristotelia trematias
- Aristotelia trossulella
- Aristotelia urbaurea
- Aristotelia vagabundella
- Aristotelia varia
- Megacraspedus leuca
- Megacraspedus litovalvella
- Megacraspedus niphorrhoa
- Megacraspedus nupponeni
- Megacraspedus orenburgensis


















