''Chedra delector'' is a tiny

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

placed in the

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Batrachedridae The Batrachedridae are a small family of tiny moths. These are small, slender moths which rest with their wings wrapped tightly around their bodies. Taxonomy The taxonomy of this and related groups is often disputed. This group was first propos ...

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of the

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in London classifies it in the family

Coleophoridae __NOTOC__ The Coleophoridae are a family of small moths, belonging to the huge superfamily Gelechioidea. Collectively known as case-bearers, casebearing moths or case moths, this family is represented on all continents, but the majority are foun ...

based on the old classification given by

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in the 1983 ''Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico''. It is found in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. The

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was collected by D. Bullock on 30 January 1941 at

Angol Angol is a commune and capital city of the Malleco Province in the Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It is located at the foot of the Nahuelbuta Range and next to the Vergara River, that permitted communications by small boats to the Bío- ...

, in the

Malleco Province Malleco Province ( es, Provincia de Malleco) is one of two provinces in the southern Chilean region of La Araucanía (IX). Its population as of the 2017 census is 205,124, and it covers an area of . The provincial capital is the city of Angol. ...

, central Chile, and is kept at the Department of Entomology of the

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of the

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.Orrell T (2019). NMNH Extant Specimen Records. Version 1.26. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/hnhrg3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-12-20. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1320649370 The species was described by Ron Hodges in 1966. The caterpillars feed upon the seeds of Cyperaceae.

References

Batrachedridae Endemic fauna of Chile Moths described in 1966 Moths of South America {{Batrachedridae-stub