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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 » Margaroniini » Polygrammodes » Polygrammodes langdonalis - Hodges#5229 (Polygrammodes langdonalis)

Species Polygrammodes langdonalis - Hodges#5229

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Polygrammodes langdonalis (Hodges #5229) - Polygrammodes langdonalis

Shiny Yellow and Orange Moth - Polygrammodes langdonalis

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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 Margaroniini

Genus Polygrammodes

Species langdonalis (Polygrammodes langdonalis - Hodges#5229)

Hodges Number

5229

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Polygrammodes langdonalis (Grote, 1877)

Pyrausta langdonalis Grote, 1877

Numbers

There are five named species of Polygrammodes in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)

Size

Wingspan about 28 mm.

Identification

Range

Most records are from Indiana to Ohio and Kentucky. (1), (3)

Texas(4)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Most records for adults are from June through August. (1)

Food

Larval host is ironweed, Vernonia Schreb. (Asteraceae)

Remarks

Type locality: USA, Ohio, Madisonville

See Also

This distinctive species is unlikely to be confused with other North American species.

Compare to related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Grote, A. R. 1877: Description of a new Botis allied to flavidalis. – The Canadian Entomologist, Ottawa 9 (1): 10.

Holland, W.J. 1915. The Moth Book. (Plate XLVII), (5) (View online)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

BAMONA

Insects of Iowa

iNaturalist

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

3.	Kentucky Butterfly Net Database (moths also)

4.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

5.	The Moth Book W. J. Holland. 1922. Doubleday, Page & Company.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 February, 2013 - 9:51am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 23 June, 2023 - 6:44pm

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