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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) » Pyraustinae » Pyraustini » Oenobotys » Wine-tinted Oenobotys - Hodges#4940 (Oenobotys vinotinctalis)

Species Oenobotys vinotinctalis - Wine-tinted Oenobotys - Hodges#4940

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Wine-tinted Oenobotys - Oenobotys vinotinctalis

Oenobotys texanalis - Oenobotys vinotinctalis

Blacklight moth - Oenobotys vinotinctalis

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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 Pyraustinae

Tribe Pyraustini

Genus Oenobotys

Species vinotinctalis (Wine-tinted Oenobotys - Hodges#4940)

Hodges Number

4940

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Oenobotys vinotinctalis (Hampson, 1895)

Explanation of Names

VINOTINCTALIS: from the Latin "vinum" (wine) + "tinctus" (a dye); refers to the reddish color of the forewing, and is the origin of the common name Wine-tinted Oenobotys

Size

Wingspan about 14 mm, based on specimen by Jim Vargo at MPG.

Identification

Adult: forewing color varies from brownish-red to yellowish-red to pinkish-red with black AM and PM lines and two black discal spots, the inner one smaller and fainter than the outer one; median area may or may not be slightly darker or of a different shade than remainder of wing; slightly darker shading may be present in terminal area; fringe scales either slightly paler or same as ground color; hindwing brownish-gray.

Range

North Carolina to Florida(1), west to Texas(2)

also occurs in Mexico and Central America

Season

possibly flies all year in the south (?)

See Also

Oenobotys texanalis.

Omiodes indicata discal spot often curved bar

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

2.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 April, 2006 - 11:04pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 August, 2014 - 6:38pm

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