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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 » Udea » Udea washingtonalis - Hodges#5081 (Udea washingtonalis)

Species Udea washingtonalis - Hodges#5081

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · 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 Spilomelinae

Genus Udea

Species washingtonalis (Udea washingtonalis - Hodges#5081)

Hodges Number

5081

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Udea washingtonalis (Grote, 1882)

Numbers

4 subspecies U. w. hollandi, nomensis, pribilofensis, washingtonalis

Size

Expanse: 19-28 mm., depending on subspecies. (1)

Identification

Adult: forewing white with dark brown band extending from middle of costa half-way to inner margin; AM and PM lines broken and/or indistinct; black spots along outer margin and distal half of costa; pale yellowish shading in median area; hindwing white with diffuse yellowish terminal band and black dots along outer margin

Range

Alaska (as far west as the Pribilof Islands), south to California. (1)

Season

adults fly from May to July in California

Print References

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 23, fig. 26; p. 178. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

California Moth Specimens Database

Works Cited

1.	Revision of North American species of Udea Guenée (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Eugene Munroe. 1966. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 98(49): 5-57.

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 9 April, 2007 - 5:25pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 15 April, 2016 - 2:28pm

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