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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 » Diastictis » Diastictis robustior - Hodges#5259 (Diastictis robustior)

Species Diastictis robustior - Hodges#5259

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

Diastictis cf. robustior - Diastictis robustior

Diastictis robustior? - Diastictis robustior

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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 Diastictis

Species robustior (Diastictis robustior - Hodges#5259)

Hodges Number

5259

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Diastictis robustior Munroe, 1956

Numbers

There are nine named species of Diastictis in America north of Mexico. (1), (2), (3)

Size

wingspan = ~29-26 mm (4)

Identification

Larger and more robust than other species of the genus; large silver spots as follows: large broad spot below and extending into the cell near the base; small round or quadrate spot near outer end of cell; anvil-shaped spot below outer end of cell that is less constricted medially than in viridescens; three spots of submarginal row quadrate, discrete in most specimens; three subapical spots fused into obliques spot that is broadest posteriorly. (4)

Range

Holotype - Nebraska; Allotype - Colorado; Paratypes - Arizona, Colorado, Kansas (4)

Print References

Powell, J. A., and P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. p. 180.(1)

Monroe, E. 1956. Restriction and Revision of the Genus Diastictis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Restriction and revision of the genus Diastictis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Eugene Munroe. 1956. The Canadian Entomologist 88: 208-228.

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 April, 2012 - 12:22pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin, Steve Morris
Last updated 11 February, 2023 - 11:23am

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