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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 » Nomophilini » Diasemiodes » Diasemiodes nigralis - Hodges#5173 (Diasemiodes nigralis)

Species Diasemiodes nigralis - Hodges#5173

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Diasemiodes nigralis? - Diasemiodes nigralis

Diathrausta reconditalis ? - Diasemiodes nigralis

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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 Nomophilini

Genus Diasemiodes

Species nigralis (Diasemiodes nigralis - Hodges#5173)

Hodges Number

5173

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Diasemiodes nigralis (Fernald, 1892) (1)

Pyrausta nigralis Fernald, 1892

Size

Wingspan 18 mm. (Fernald)

Identification

Original description is online as Pyrausta nigralis Fernald. (link below)

Range

Florida(2) to Texas; strays north to at least Michigan and Maryland. (3), (4), (5), (6)

Type localities: USA: Texas; Florida, Cold Harbor. (Fernald)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Bug Guide data

Season

Most records are from May to October; year round in Florida. (4), (6)

Print References

Fernald, C.H. 1892. New North American Microlepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, p. (178)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

lepbarcoding.org

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

3.	A partial checklist of moths from mixed mesophytic hardwood forests in Louisiana (Insecta: Lepidoptera) Deborah Landau, Dorothy Prowell. 1999. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 125(1+2): 139-150.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

6.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 September, 2010 - 7:53am
Additional contributions by David Ferguson
Last updated 1 February, 2014 - 11:20am

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