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Genus Sciota

Sciota celtidella or virgatella ? - Sciota celtidella Sciota subcaesiella  - Sciota Metallic striped leafroller - Sciota uvinella Sciota virgatella Sciota subcaesiella Sciota uvinella Pyralidae on Lead Plant - Sciota rubescentella Sciota subcaesiella ? - Sciota subcaesiella
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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 Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)
Subfamily Phycitinae
Tribe Phycitini
No Taxon (Nephopteryx Series)
No Taxon (Sciota Group)
Genus Sciota
Other Common Names
Leafroller (1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sciota Hulst, 1888
Syn: Nephopterix Hbn., 1825
Numbers
19 spp. n. of Mex. (2)
Print References
Hulst, G.D. 1888. New genera and species of Epipaschiae [sic] and Phycitidae. Entomologica Americana 4: 113-118. (pg. 115)
Works Cited
1.Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.
2.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.