Aristotelia (moth) explained

Aristotelia (moth) should not be confused with Aristotelia (plant).

Aristotelia is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. Well-known species are food plant specialists, and diverse hosts are used – Salicaceae, Solanaceae, Rosaceae, Fagaceae, Fabaceae, Asteraceae.^[1]

Species

• Aristotelia achyrobathra Meyrick, 1933
• Aristotelia adceanotha Keifer, 1935
• Aristotelia adenostomae Keifer, 1933
• Aristotelia amelanchierella Braun, 1925
• Aristotelia antipala Meyrick, 1904
• Aristotelia aphiltra Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia aphthoropa Turner, 1939
• Aristotelia aphromorpha Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia aquosa Meyrick, 1925
• Aristotelia argentifera Busck, 1903
• Aristotelia argodecta Meyrick, 1918
• Aristotelia argyractis Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia articulata Meyrick, 1918
• Aristotelia avanica Piskunov & Emelyanov, 1982
• Aristotelia balanocentra Meyrick, 1914
• Aristotelia baltica A. Sulcs & I. Sulcs, 1983
• Aristotelia benedenii (Weyenbergh, 1873)
• Aristotelia bicomis Bippus, 2020
• Aristotelia bifasciella Busck, 1903
• Aristotelia billii Varenne & J. Nel, 2013
• Aristotelia brizella (Treitschke, 1833)
• Aristotelia brochodesma Meyrick, 1908
• Aristotelia calastomella (Christoph, 1873)
• Aristotelia calculatrix Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia calens Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia callirrhoda Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia callyntrophora Rebel, 1899
• Aristotelia centrosema (Lower, 1893)
• Aristotelia citrocosma Meyrick, 1908
• Aristotelia chalybeiochroa (Walsingham, 1897)
• Aristotelia chlorographa Meyrick, 1914
• Aristotelia clavata Meyrick, 1914
• Aristotelia coeruleopictella (Caradja, 1920)
• Aristotelia comis Meyrick, 1913
• Aristotelia condensata Meyrick, 1928
• Aristotelia corallina Walsingham, 1909
• Aristotelia cosmographa Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia crassicornis Walsingham, 1897
• Aristotelia crypsixantha Turner, 1919
• Aristotelia cynthia Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia cytheraea Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia dasypoda Walsingham, 1910
• Aristotelia decoratella (Staudinger, 1879)
• Aristotelia decurtella (Hubner, 1813)
• Aristotelia devexella Braun, 1925
• Aristotelia diolcella Forbes, 1931
• Aristotelia dryonota Meyrick, 1926
• Aristotelia elachistella (Zeller, 1877)
• Aristotelia eldorada Keifer, 1936
• Aristotelia elegantella (Chambers, 1874)
• Aristotelia epacria Bradley, 1965
• Aristotelia epimetalla Meyrick, 1904
• Aristotelia epicharta Turner, 1919
• Aristotelia ericinella (Zeller, 1839)
• Aristotelia erycina Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia eupatoriella Busck, [1934]
• Aristotelia eumeris Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia euprepella Zerny, 1934
• Aristotelia eurypsola Turner, 1919
• Aristotelia flavicapitella (Chrétien, 1915)
• Aristotelia frankeniae Walsingham, 1898
• Aristotelia fungivorella (Clemens, 1865)
• Aristotelia furtiva Meyrick, 1904
• Aristotelia galeotis Meyrick, 1908
• Aristotelia heliacella (Herrich-Schaffer, 1854)
• Aristotelia hemisarca Lower, 1916
• Aristotelia hexacopa Meyrick, 1929
• Aristotelia hieroglyphica Walsingham, 1909
• Aristotelia howardi Walsingham, 1909
• Aristotelia iomarmara Meyrick, 1921
• Aristotelia iospora Meyrick, 1929
• Aristotelia isopelta Meyrick, 1929
• Aristotelia ivae Busck, 1900
• Aristotelia leonhardi Krone, 1907
• Aristotelia lespedezae Braun, 1930
• Aristotelia leucophanta Meyrick, 1908
• Aristotelia lignicolora Forbes, 1931
• Aristotelia lindanella Barnes & Busck, 1920
• Aristotelia macrothecta Meyrick, 1904
• Aristotelia melanaphra Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia mesoxysta Meyrick, 1913
• Aristotelia mirabilis (Christoph, 1888)
• Aristotelia mirandella (Chretien, 1908)
• Aristotelia modulatrix Meyrick, 1938
• Aristotelia molestella (Zeller, 1873)
• Aristotelia monilella Barnes & Busck, 1920
• Aristotelia montarcella A. Schmidt, 1941
• Aristotelia naxia Meyrick, 1926
• Aristotelia nesiotatos Park, 2014
• Aristotelia ochreella (Rebel, 1927)
• Aristotelia ochrostephana Turner, 1933
• Aristotelia ochroxysta Meyrick, 1929
• Aristotelia oribatis Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia ouedella (Chrétien, 1908)
• Aristotelia pachnopis Meyrick, 1939
• Aristotelia palamota Meyrick, 1926
• Aristotelia pamphaea Meyrick, 1904
• Aristotelia pancaliella (Staudinger, 1871)
• Aristotelia pantalaena (Walsingham, 1911)
• Aristotelia paphia Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia paradesma (Meyrick, 1885)
• Aristotelia parephoria Clarke, 1951
• Aristotelia paterata Meyrick, 1914
• Aristotelia penicillata (Walsingham, 1897)
• Aristotelia perfossa Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia perplexa Clarke, 1951
• Aristotelia planitia Braun, 1925
• Aristotelia primipilana Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia probolopis Meyrick, 1923
• Aristotelia psoraleae Braun, 1930
• Aristotelia ptilastis Meyrick, 1909
• Aristotelia pudibundella (Zeller, 1873)
• Aristotelia pulicella Walsingham, 1897
• Aristotelia pulvera Braun, 1923
• Aristotelia pyrodercia Walsingham, 1910
• Aristotelia resinosa Meyrick, 1918
• Aristotelia rhamnina Keifer, 1933
• Aristotelia rhoisella Busck, 1934
• Aristotelia roseosuffusella (Clemens, 1860)
• Aristotelia rubidella (Clemens, 1860)
• Aristotelia rufinotella (Chrétien, 1922)
• Aristotelia salicifungiella (Clemens, 1865)
• Aristotelia sarcodes Walsingham, 1910
• Aristotelia saturnina Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia schematias Meyrick, 1911
• Aristotelia schistopa Diakonoff, 1954
• Aristotelia sinistra Meyrick, 1904
• Aristotelia sphenomorpha Meyrick, 1930
• Aristotelia squamigera Walsingham, 1909
• Aristotelia staticella Milliere, 1876
• Aristotelia sticheris Turner, 1919
• Aristotelia subdecurtella (Stainton, 1859)
• Aristotelia subericinella (Duponchel, 1843)
• Aristotelia subrosea Meyrick, 1914
• Aristotelia swierstrae Janse, 1950
• Aristotelia tetracosma Meyrick, 1904
• Aristotelia thalamitis Meyrick, 1908
• Aristotelia themerastis Turner, 1919
• Aristotelia thetica Meyrick, 1904
• Aristotelia transfilata Meyrick, 1927
• Aristotelia trematias Meyrick, 1913
• Aristotelia triclasma Diakonoff, 1954
• Aristotelia trossulella Walsingham, 1897
• Aristotelia turbida Turner, 1919
• Aristotelia tyttha Falkovitsh & Bidzilya, 2003
• Aristotelia urbaurea Keifer, 1933
• Aristotelia vagabundella Forbes, 1931
• Aristotelia veteranella (Zeller, 1877)
• Aristotelia vicana Meyrick, 1917
• Aristotelia zetetica Meyrick, 1934

Status unclear

• Aristotelia chrysometra Meyrick, 1926
• Aristotelia impunctella (Caradja, 1920), described as Xystophora impunctella (nom. nud.)
• Aristotelia incitata Meyrick, 1918
• Aristotelia notatella Dyar, 1904 (nom. nud.)

Former species

• Aristotelia brizelloides Amsel, 1935
• Aristotelia interstratella (Christoph, 1872)
• Aristotelia leptocrossa Meyrick, 1926
• Aristotelia sardicolella (Schawerda, 1936)

References

• , 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part I: descriptions of seventeen new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 2366: 1-34. Abstract: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02366p034f.pdf].
• 2009: Beautiful gelechiid moths-Aristotelia baltica A. Šulcs & I. Šulcs, 1983, stat. n. and related species (Gelechiidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 32 (2): 89-97.
• ; ; 2009: Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico. Zootaxa, 2231: 1-39. Abstract & excerpt
• , 2013: Aristotelia billii sp. n. découverte dans le midi de la France (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie 22 (1): 17-19.

External links

• Bugguide.net

Notes and References

1. Moths of Western North America By Powell and Opler