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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 » Herpetogrammatini » Hileithia » Hileithia differentialis - Hodges#5190 (Hileithia differentialis)

Species Hileithia differentialis - Hodges#5190

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

Blepharomastix? - Hileithia differentialis

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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 Herpetogrammatini

Genus Hileithia

Species differentialis (Hileithia differentialis - Hodges#5190)

Hodges Number

5190

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hileithia differentialis (Dyar, 1914)

Blepharomastix differentialis Dyar, 1914

Bocchoris differentialis Dyar, 1914

Identification

Determined by Jim Vargo.

Range

Heppner (2003) included Florida; West Indies to Central America. (1)

Season

Heppner (2003) reported March to April, July to December in Florida. (1)

Food

Heppner (2003) reported the following plants. (1)

Blechum brownei (Lam.) Urb. (Browne's blechum).

Baccharis L. species as a possible host or resting site. (1)

Remarks

Blepharomastix magualis, aplicalis, rehamalis, and differentialis were transferred to Hileithia in Munroe (1995a). (2)

Print References

Dyar, H. G. 1914. Report on the Lepidoptera of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington 47 (2050):266.

Munroe E. G. 1995. Crambidae (Crambinae, Schoenobiinae, Cybalomiinae, Linostinae, Glaphyriinae, Dichogaminae, Scopariinae, Musotiminae, Midilinae, Nymphulinae, Odontiinae, Evergestinae, Pyraustinae). In: Heppner, J. B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 2. Hyblaeoidea – Pyraloidea - Tortricoidea 3 Association for Tropical Lepidoptera & Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, 60–79.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

2.	Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M. 2015. ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 September, 2013 - 7:06pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Sexton, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 22 September, 2020 - 8:42pm

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