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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) » Crambine Snout Moths (Crambinae) » Ancylolomiini » Hemiplatytes » Hemiplatytes prosenes - Hodges#5508 (Hemiplatytes prosenes)

Species Hemiplatytes prosenes - Hodges#5508

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

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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 Crambinae (Crambine Snout Moths)

Tribe Ancylolomiini

Genus Hemiplatytes

Species prosenes (Hemiplatytes prosenes - Hodges#5508)

Hodges Number

5508

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hemiplatytes prosenes (Dyar, 1912)

Diatraea prosenes Dyar, 1912 (1)

Haimbachia(?) prosenes Dyar & Heinrich, 1927

Alamogordia prosenes (Capps, 1965) (2)

Size

Dyar (1912) listed the wingspan as 22 mm.

Range

California(3) to Colorado(?)

Season

Adults are most common from June to September. (4)

Print References

Capps, H.W. 1965. Review of the genus Haimbachia Dyar with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera, Crambidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 117(3520): 647. (2)

Dyar, H.G. 1912. Lepidoptera collected at Laguna Beach, California. First annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory at Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, 165.

Dyar, H.G. & C. Heinrich, 1927. American moths of the genus Diatraea and allies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 71(2691): 37.(1)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America, plate 24.35, p. 184. (5)

Internet References

University of California, Berkeley

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	The American moths of the genus Diatraea and allies Harrison G. Dyar, Carl Heinrich. 1927. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 71(2691): 1-48.

2.	Review of the genus Haimbachia (Dyar) with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera, Crambidae). Hahn W. Capps. 1965. Proceedings of The United States National Museum, 117(3520): 629-653.

3.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 1 July, 2013 - 10:33pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 4:27pm

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