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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) » Haimbachiini » Epina » Epina alleni - Hodges#5469 (Epina alleni)

Species Epina alleni - Hodges#5469

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · 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 Haimbachiini

Genus Epina

Species alleni (Epina alleni - Hodges#5469)

Hodges Number

5469

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Epina alleni (Fernald, 1888)

Diatraea alleni Fernald, 1888

Numbers

The genus Epina includes two species in America, north of Mexico. (1), (2)

Size

Fernald (1896) listed the wingspan as 30 mm. (3)

Identification

The cream colored hindwing has a dark brown terminal line that ends before reaching the anal angle.

Range

Maine to Indiana, and South Carolina. (4), (2), (5)

The holotype was collected in Orono, Maine. (3)

Season

Adults are most common from June to August. (2)

Food

Fernald (1896) did not list a food plant, or describe the immature stages. (3)

Print References

Fernald, C.H. 1888. On the genus Diatraea. Entomologica Americana, 4: 120.

Fernald, C.H. 1896. The Crambidæ of North America, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 75. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

The University of South Carolina

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	The Crambidae of North America Charles Henry Fernald. 1896. Massachusetts Agricultural College.

4.	South Carolina Moth Species

5.	The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States William T.M. Forbes. 1923. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Memoir 68.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 July, 2013 - 8:30pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 2:28pm

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