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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) » Chilonini » Diatraea

Genus Diatraea

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5478 Diatraea evanescens - Diatraea evanescens Diatraea Moth - Hodges #5481 - Diatraea lisetta Crambine Snout Moth - Hodges #5478 - Diatraea evanescens Diatraea lisetta Diatraea lisetta Many dotted moth - Diatraea lisetta Diatraea crambidoides Possibly Diatraea saccharalis (no BG images though) - Diatraea saccharalis
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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 Chilonini
Genus Diatraea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Diatraea Guilding, 1832; redescription in Fernald (1888) Entomologica Americana 4: 119
Numbers
Eight species for North America
Print References
Solis et al. 2015. A new cryptic species of Diatraea (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Crambinae) feeding on Eastern Gama Grass and a novel host association with a braconid (Hymenoptera) in the United States. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 108(4): 648-659.
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 28 January, 2007 - 9:02pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 25 December, 2015 - 4:40pm

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