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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Synanthedonini » Carmenta » Blazingstar Borer Moth - Hodges#2592 (Carmenta anthracipennis)

Species Carmenta anthracipennis - Blazingstar Borer Moth - Hodges#2592

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

6011920 - Synanthedon - Carmenta anthracipennis - male

Carmenta anthracipennis? - Carmenta anthracipennis

Moth with curved antennae - Carmenta anthracipennis

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Cossoidea (Carpenter and Clearwing Moths)

Family Sesiidae (Clearwing Moths)

Subfamily Sesiinae

Tribe Synanthedonini

Genus Carmenta

Species anthracipennis (Blazingstar Borer Moth - Hodges#2592)

Hodges Number

2592

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Carmenta anthracipennis (Boisduval, 1875)

Carmenta sanborni Hy. Edwards, 1881 (185)

* phylogenetic sequence #080975

Explanation of Names

Anthracipennis is Greek for "charcoal wings." (1)

Size

Wingspan: ♂ 17-20, ♀ 18-22 mm. (2)

Forewing length 7-10 mm. (3)

Range

Eastern two thirds of the US and southern Canada. (3)

Food

Larvae bore in the roots of blazing star (Liatris, Asteraceae). (3)

Print References

Brown, L.N. & R.F. Mizell, III 1993. The Clearwing Borers of Florida (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Tropical Lepidoptera 4(4): 1-21 (PDF) (3)

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. USNM Bulletin 190: 47-48, pl.19, f.110 (f.111 male of syn. C. sanborni) (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. George P. Engelhardt. 1946. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 1-222, pl.1-32.

3.	The Clearwing Borers of Florida (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Larry N. Brown & Russel F. Mizell, III. 1993. Tropical Lepidoptera 4(4): 1-21.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 24 June, 2008 - 6:07pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 June, 2013 - 2:02pm

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