Filatima

Filatima
Filatima obidenna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Tribe: Gelechiini
Genus: Filatima
Busck, 1939

Filatima is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae.

Filatima serotinella

Biology

In November 2005, an infestation of Filatima caterpillars was found to be stunting the revegetation activity of land destroyed by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington.

Species

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ "Caterpillars keep volcano bare." New Scientist 188.2525 (12 Nov 2005): 23.