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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Spilomelinae » Margaroniini » Glyphodes » Mulberry Leaftier Moth - Hodges#5198 (Glyphodes sibillalis)

Species Glyphodes sibillalis - Mulberry Leaftier Moth - Hodges#5198

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References

Hodges #5198 - Mulberry Leaftier Moth - Glyphodes sibillalis

Texas SE Gulf Coast - Glyphodes sibillalis

Moth on Spring Island - Glyphodes sibillalis

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)

Family Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)

Subfamily Spilomelinae

Tribe Margaroniini

Genus Glyphodes

Species sibillalis (Mulberry Leaftier Moth - Hodges#5198)

Hodges Number

5198

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Glyphodes sibillalis – Walker, 1859

Glyphodes batesi - Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875

Glyphodes atlitalis - Hulst, 1886

* phylogenetic sequence #155350

Numbers

There are four Glyphodes species found in North America north of Mexico.

Range

South Carolina to Tennessee and south to Alabama and Florida.

Central and South America and the West Indies

Food

Mulberry leaves (Wikipedia)

Remarks

Type locality: St. Domingo

See Also

Glyphodes pyloalis

Glyphodes floridalis

Print References

Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. 1871: Die Schmetterlinge der Insel Cuba. – Korrespondenz-Blatt des Zoologisch-Mineralogischen Vereines in Regensburg 25: 29.

Munroe, E. G. 1956 f: Pyralides récoltés à l'île de la Guadeloupe par M. L. Berland, [Lepid.] . – Revue française d'Entomologie, Paris 23: 121.

Walker, F. 1859 b: Pyralides. – List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, London 17: 506.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.

Moth Photographers Group - photo of living Glyphodes sibillalis and related species.

Forestry Images

Wikipedia - images of larvae and leaf damage

Images of larva and leaf damage; larva; larva - Lacy L. Hyche, Auburn University, Bugwood.org

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 September, 2008 - 8:05am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 28 December, 2016 - 8:58am

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