[ncsc-moths] Re: Acrobasis question
- From: Harry Wilson <harrywilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:40:38 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Looks like I may have found the answer to my question. The MPG technical notes indicate that the two are synonymous. I have also found a few other synonymous species, so the list is shrinking a bit.
Harry
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From: Harry Wilson
Sent: Apr 24, 2012 8:07 PM
To: NC Moths
Subject: [ncsc-moths] Acrobasis question
Fellow moth'ers,
In addition to working through my species list I have also been trying to save species photo IDs, primarily from MPG and BG, which I save as PDF files. In doing so I discovered that one species, Acrobasis rubrifasciella, was listed by two Hodges ID numbers, 5679 and 5690. Even my original listing of Hodges numbers for all leps had that arrangement, so that is how they ended up on my NC list. After quite a bit of digging this evening I found that 5679 should go with A. alnella, but some web sites seem to indicate that A. rubrifasciella is a synonym for A. alnella.
Is anyone familiar with this/these species? If they are distinct, I would like to know the distribution range for A. alnella so I will know whether to leave it on the NC list or not. There seems to be scant information about this on the web, but hopefully one of you may have a resource that provides the answer.
Harry Wilson
Zebulon, NC
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