[ncsc-moths] Re: Acrobasis question
- From: "J. Merrill Lynch" <jmerrilllynch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:41:50 -0400
Harry, confirm alnella is a synonym of rubrifasciella.
Merrill
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Harry Wilson <harrywilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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J. Merrill Lynch
Echo Valley Farm
Watauga County, NC
Elevation: 3,400 feet
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