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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 » Agroterini » Diastictis » Diastictis caecalis - Hodges#5261 (Diastictis caecalis)

Species Diastictis caecalis - Hodges#5261

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Crambid Moth - Diastictis caecalis Diastictis caecalis Diastictis caecalis Crambid Moth, sp - Diastictis caecalis Anania mysippusalis - Diastictis caecalis Pyraustini? - Diastictis caecalis Crambidae: Loxostege thallophilalis - Diastictis caecalis Crambid? - Diastictis caecalis
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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 Agroterini
Genus Diastictis
Species caecalis (Diastictis caecalis - Hodges#5261)
Hodges Number
5261
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Diastictis caecalis (Warren, 1892)
Anomostictis caecalis Warren, 1892
Size
Forewing length: 9.0-12.5 mm (1).
Identification
"Forewing chocolate brown with an irregular, darker postmedial, transverse line; hindwing milk chocolate brown to ochreous brown with a postmedial line extended to anal margin" (1).
Range
From the "foothills of the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges from Shasta County to the Transverse Ranges in southern California" (1).
Habitat
Often associated with serpentine soil grasslands (1).
Season
March to May (1).
Print References
Warren, W. 1892. Descriptions of new genera and species of Pyralidae contained in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (ser. 6) 9: 434.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 18 December, 2015 - 10:38pm
Last updated 18 February, 2017 - 12:10am

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