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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 » Agroterini » Lygropia » Sweetpotato leafroller  - Hodges#5248 (Lygropia tripunctata)

Species Lygropia tripunctata - Sweetpotato leafroller - Hodges#5248

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Sweetpotato leafroller - Hodges #5248 - Lygropia tripunctata Texas SE Gulf Coast - Lygropia tripunctata - female Hodges #5248 - Sweet-potato Leaffolder Moth - Lygropia tripunctata Lygropia tripunctata - Sweetpotato leafroller - Lygropia tripunctata
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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 Agroterini
Genus Lygropia
Species tripunctata (Sweetpotato leafroller - Hodges#5248)
Hodges Number
5248
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lygropia tripunctata (Fabricius, 1794) (1)
Pilocrocis tripunctata Fabricius, 1794
Botys campalis Guenée, 1854 (2)
Botys cubanalis Guenée, 1854
Explanation of Names
Latin tripunctata meaning marked with three. This refers to the three dark marks along the forewing costa. (3)
Size
Wingspan about 26 mm (4)
Identification
Description summary: (1)
Wings light yellowish and iridescent.
Dark grayish-brown band along the costa that continues along the outer margin of both forewing and hindwing, being widest at the apex.
Two black spots along the costa with the larger one at the middle of the costa. The smaller spot is half way between the larger and the wing base.
Postmedial line has thicker patch where it meets costa.
Hindwing has dark discal spot.
Range
Texas to South Carolina and Florida. (5), (6), (4)
West Indies to Brazil. (2)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Most records of adults are from March to October. (4)
Food
Larval hosts include:
Turbina corymbosa (L.) Raf. (Christmasvine)
Merremia umbellata (L.) Hallier f. (hogvine)
Ipomoea spp. (1)
See Also
Herpetogramma fluctuosalis

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Print References
Fabricius, J. C. 1794: Entomologica systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. – C. G. Proft et C. F. Mohr, Hafniae et Kiliae. 217.
Guenée, M. A. 1854: Deltoïdes et Pyralites. Pp. 344-45. – In: Boisduval, J. B. A. D. de & M. A. Guenée, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères 8 8. – Roret, Paris.
Jones, T.H. 1917. The sweet-potato leaf-roller. United States Dept. of Agriculture Bulletin No. 609.(1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems
lepbarcoding.org
Works Cited
1.The Sweet-potato leaf-roller, United States Dept. of Agriculture Bulletin No. 609.
Thomas H. Jones. 1917. United States Dept. of Agriculture.
2.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
3.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
6.South Carolina Moth Species
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 June, 2009 - 9:08am
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 12 March, 2018 - 8:36pm

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