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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 » Carmenta tecta - Hodges#2613 (Carmenta tecta)

Species Carmenta tecta - Hodges#2613

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

Carmenta tecta (Hy. Edwards) - Carmenta tecta - male

sesiid moth on goldenrod - Carmenta tecta - female

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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 tecta (Carmenta tecta - Hodges#2613)

Hodges Number

2613

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Carmenta tecta (Hy. Edwards, 1882)

Aegeria tecta Hy. Edwards, 1882

Sesia tecta

Synanthedon tecta

* phylogenetic sequence #081575

Explanation of Names

Tecta from Greek meaning "carpenter."

Size

Wingspan: ♂ 18 mm, ♀ 20-24 mm. (1)

Range

Known from the mountains of southern Arizona and west Texas. (1), (2)

Food

Larvae bore in stems of oak mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum, Viscaceae). (1)

Print References

Beuttenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 302-303, pl.31, f.7m, pl.33, f.2m, f.3f (3)

Edwards, Hy. 1882. Notes on N. American Aegeridae, with descriptions of new forms. Papilio 2(4): 56

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 52-54 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. William Beutenmüller. 1901. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 218-352, pl.29-36.

Contributed by tom murray on 21 November, 2008 - 8:05pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 June, 2013 - 6:09pm

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