Gnorimoschema octomaculella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Gnorimoschema
- Species
- Gnorimoschema octomaculella
- Scientific Name
- Gnorimoschema octomaculella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Gnorimoschema octomaculella
Gnorimoschema octomaculella is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1875. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California and Washington.
The forewings have a brown spot on the dorsal margin near the base, which is brownish, and also a large rust-red spot on the disc before the middle which touches a brown costal spot placed just before it. There is another rusty-red spot at the end of the disc, and a rather dense small patch of dusting before the costal cilia, and one also before the dorsal cilia. The hindwings are pale grayish fuscus.
The larvae feed on Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus.
...Gnorimoschema octomaculella in languages:
- English
- Rabbitbrush stem gall moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Gnorimoschema alaskense
- Gnorimoschema albangulata
- Gnorimoschema albestre
- Gnorimoschema albimarginella
- Gnorimoschema altaica
- Gnorimoschema anomale
- Gnorimoschema assimile
- Gnorimoschema aterrimum
- Gnorimoschema baccharisella
- Gnorimoschema bacchariselloides
- Gnorimoschema banksiella
- Gnorimoschema bodillum
- Gnorimoschema brachiatum
- Gnorimoschema brachyptera
- Gnorimoschema cinctipunctella
- Gnorimoschema clavatum
- Gnorimoschema compsomorpha
- Gnorimoschema contraria
- Gnorimoschema coquillettella
- Gnorimoschema crypticum
- Gnorimoschema curiosum
- Gnorimoschema debenedicti
- Gnorimoschema dudiella
- Gnorimoschema emancipata
- Gnorimoschema epithymella
- Gnorimoschema ericameriae
- Gnorimoschema ericoidesi
- Gnorimoschema foliatum
- Gnorimoschema fuscescens
- Gnorimoschema gallaeasterella
- Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis
- Gnorimoschema gallaespeciosum
- Gnorimoschema geminum
- Gnorimoschema generale
- Gnorimoschema gibsoniella
- Gnorimoschema gracile
- Gnorimoschema grindeliae
- Gnorimoschema herbichii
- Gnorimoschema hoefneri
- Gnorimoschema jalavai
- Gnorimoschema jocelynae
- Gnorimoschema lateritium
- Gnorimoschema ligulatum
- Gnorimoschema nanulum
- Gnorimoschema nilsi
- Gnorimoschema nordlandicolella
- Gnorimoschema nupponeni
- Gnorimoschema obscurior
- Gnorimoschema octomaculella
- Gnorimoschema ovinum
- Gnorimoschema paternale
- Gnorimoschema pedmontella
- Gnorimoschema perditum
- Gnorimoschema petiolatum
- Gnorimoschema pocketosum
- Gnorimoschema powelli
- Gnorimoschema radkevichi
- Gnorimoschema reichli
- Gnorimoschema robustella
- Gnorimoschema rotundatum
- Gnorimoschema rufomaculata
- Gnorimoschema salinaris
- Gnorimoschema saphirinella
- Gnorimoschema segregatum
- Gnorimoschema semicylionella
- Gnorimoschema septentrionella
- Gnorimoschema serratipalpella
- Gnorimoschema shepherdiae
- Gnorimoschema signatum
- Gnorimoschema siskiouense
- Gnorimoschema soffneri
- Gnorimoschema spinosum
- Gnorimoschema steueri
- Gnorimoschema stigmaticum
- Gnorimoschema streliciella
- Gnorimoschema subterranea
- Gnorimoschema tabazhok
- Gnorimoschema tediosum
- Gnorimoschema tenerum
- Gnorimoschema terracottella
- Gnorimoschema triocellella
- Gnorimoschema valesiella
- Gnorimoschema vastifica
- Gnorimoschema wagneri
- Gnorimoschema yakovlevi














































































































