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Phthorimaea

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Phthorimaea is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. Species include the potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyGelechiidae

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Specimen records
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Family
Gelechiidae
Collections
ANSP
Recorded in
United States

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Phthorimaea is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. Species include the potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella.

==Species== Phthorimaea euchthonia Meyrick, 1939 Phthorimaea exacta Meyrick, 1917 Phthorimaea ferella (Berg, 1875) Phthorimaea impudica Walsingham, 1911 Phthorimaea interjuncta Meyrick, 1931 Phthorimaea involuta Meyrick, 1917 Phthorimaea molitor (Walsingham, 1896) Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873) Phthorimaea perfidiosa Meyrick, 1917 Phthorimaea pherometopa Povolný, 1967 Phthorimaea robusta Povolný, 1989 Phthorimaea sphenophora (Walsingham, 1897) Phthorimaea suavella (Caradja, 1920) Phthorimaea urosema Meyrick, 1917

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