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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 » Udeini » Ercta » Ercta vittata - Hodges#5111 (Ercta vittata)

Species Ercta vittata - Hodges#5111

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Ercta vittata - Hodges #5111 - Ercta vittata
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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 Udeini
Genus Ercta
Species vittata (Ercta vittata - Hodges#5111)
Hodges Number
5111
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ercta vittata (Fabricius, 1794)
syn. Stenia hemialis Guenée, 1854
Numbers
Ercta vittata is the only member of the genus listed for America, north of Mexico. (1)
Identification
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (2)
Range
Southern Florda
Season
Heppner (2003) reported adults during the months of January, June to September, November. (3)
Moth Photographers Group includes March. (4)
Print References
Fabricius, 1794. Ent. Syst., 3(2): 217.
Guenée, 1854. in Boisduval & Guenée, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Spécies Général des Lépidoptères, 8: 248.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)
Moths of Jamaica
Works Cited
1.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
2.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
3.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 July, 2013 - 6:47pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 2:46pm

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