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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Euzophera Series » Euzophera » Euzophera aglaeella - Hodges#5995.1 (Euzophera aglaeella)

Species Euzophera aglaeella - Hodges#5995.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · 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 Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)

Subfamily Phycitinae

Tribe Phycitini

No Taxon (Euzophera Series)

Genus Euzophera

Species aglaeella (Euzophera aglaeella - Hodges#5995.1)

Hodges Number

5995.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Euzophera aglaeella Ragonot, 1887 (1)

Long treated as a form of Euzophera semifuneralis (Walker, 1863).

Phylogenetic sequence #800216.00

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Greek meaning "beauty." (2)

Size

Wingspan about 20-25 mm (based on E. semifuneralis).

Identification

Adult - see original description in Print References. (1) Under Euzophera semifuneralis Heinrich (1956) states "E. aglaeela represents a color form, with paler red-brown areas and more strongly contrasted blackish median dustings and markings. It is commoner in the Western and Southwestern States and Mexico." (3)

Range

Not well known, at least Arizona and Mexico.

Food

Larvae bore in walnut (318). Heinrich (1956) states it is a bark borer in plum, olives and walnut. (3)

See Also

Euzophera semifuneralis

Print References

Ragonot, E.L., 1887. Diagnoses of North American Phycitidæ and Galleriidæ: 14. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

Works Cited

1.	Diagnoses of North American Phycitiae and Galleriiae. Émile Louis Ragonot. 1887. Self-published Paris, France: pp. 1-20.

2.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

3.	American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae Carl Heinrich. 1956. United States National Museum Bulletin 207: 1-581.

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 17 September, 2015 - 5:06pm
Last updated 30 January, 2019 - 6:16am

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