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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Mimallonoidea » Sack-bearers (Mimallonidae) » Cicinnus » Melsheimer's Sack-bearer Moth - Hodges#7662 (Cicinnus melsheimeri)

Species Cicinnus melsheimeri - Melsheimer's Sack-bearer Moth - Hodges#7662

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References
Cicinnus melsheimeri 7662 - Cicinnus melsheimeri Mating Pair of Melsheimer's Sack-bearer Moth - Cicinnus melsheimeri - male - female
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Mimallonoidea
Family Mimallonidae (Sack-bearers)
Genus Cicinnus
Species melsheimeri (Melsheimer's Sack-bearer Moth - Hodges#7662)
Hodges Number
7662
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Saccophora melsheimeri Harris, 1841
Perophora melsheimeri Harris, 1841
Explanation of Names
Patronym for the Melsheimer Family.
Numbers
One sp. n. of Mexico
Size
wingspan about 35 mm, based on Moth Photographers Group specimen
Range
Widespread across North America
Habitat
Sandplain pitch pine–scrub oak barrens, especially in scrub oak thickets in the northeast. (Wagner et al. 2003)
Food
Quercus
Remarks
Type Locality: Dover, York Co., Pennsylvania
Print References
Harris, T.W. 1841. A report on the insects of Massachusetts injurious to vegetation. Rep. Insects Mass. injurious to Vegetation. 459 pp.
Wagner, D.L., M.W. Nelson, and D.F. Schweitzer. 2003. Shrubland Lepidoptera of southern New England and southeastern New York: ecology, conservation, and management. For. Ecol. & Mgmt. 185: 95-112.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group pinned adult specimen
Dorso, verso - James K. Adams, Georgia Leps, Dalton State
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 3 April, 2006 - 3:35pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Mike Quinn
Last updated 25 July, 2009 - 3:20pm

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