Homaledra heptathalama

Homaledra heptathalama, the exclamation moth or palm leaf housemaker, is a moth in the family Pterolonchidae. It was described by August Busck in 1900. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida and South Carolina.^[1]

Homaledra heptathalama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterolonchidae
Genus:	Homaledra
Species:	H. heptathalama
Binomial name
Homaledra heptathalama Busck, 1900

Taxonomy

It was first described in 1900 by August Busck using specimens from Palm Beach, Florida.^[2] It was included in the family Coleophoridae by Ron Hodges in 1983. Hodges then moved it to the subfamily Batrachedrinae of the Batrachedridae in 1999.^[2][3][4] In 2014, a cladistic analysis performed by Heikkilä et al., made them decide it was necessary to reclassify the genus in the family Pterolonchidae.^[5]