Gelechiidae Stainton 1854
Creators: name: Pohl, Greg
name: Anweiler, Gary
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Kondla, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae

description: <i>32. Gelechiidae – gelechiid moths</i> A diverse family of moths with upturned palps, and with hindwings having a sinuate distal margin with the tip often extended into a sharp point. Most adults are drably marked with mottled brown, black, and white scales, but a few are brightly colored. Most species are active at night. Larvae of most species are leafrollers or leaftiers; a few species are seed feeders, leafminers and needleminers, or stem and root gall formers. The family Gelechiidae is a large, poorly known group, probably the most poorly known large family of Lepidoptera in North America: Hodges (1999a) estimated that only 30% of species had been described. Approximately 2500 species are known worldwide. Lee et al. (2009) published a checklist of the North American Gelechiidae listing 886 species; 121 of these are reported herein from AB. <i>32.1. Gelechiinae</i> Minute to small (8–25 mm wingspan) moths with typical features of the family as described above. The subfamily Gelechiinae comprises the majority of described species of Gelechiidae. Th e taxonomic state of this subfamily is poor, with many genera inadequately delimited and unrevised. Many species have not been adequately described or illustrated, so they are diffi cult or impossible to identify without examination of type material. Approximately 3500 species are known worldwide, 797 of which are known from North America. One hundred and ten species are reported from AB. Many more species undoubtedly occur in this province that have not been collected or have been collected but remain unidentified or misidentified in collections. Genera that are fairly well known are <i>Caryocolum</i> (Huemer 1988), <i>Bryotropha</i> (Rutten and Karsholt 2004), <i>Chionodes</i> (Hodges 1999b), <i>Coleotechnites</i> (Freeman 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965), <i>Deltophora</i> (Sattler 1979), <i>Filatima</i> (in part, Clarke 1947; Hodges and Adamski 1997), <i>Gnorimoschema</i> and related genera (Povolný 1967, 1998a, 1998b, 1998c, 1998d, 2000; Miller 2000; Powell and Povolný 2001), and <i>Prolita</i> and related genera (Hodges 1966b). The tribe Teleiodini has been revised recently at the genus level (Lee and Brown 2008).
description: Published as part of <i>Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian &amp; Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, pp. 1-549 in ZooKeys 38 (38)</i> on page 79, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383, http://zenodo.org/record/576629
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