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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) » Acentropinae » Argyractini » Argyractis » Argyractis drumalis - Hodges#4770 (Argyractis drumalis)

Species Argyractis drumalis - Hodges#4770

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · 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 Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)
Subfamily Acentropinae
Tribe Argyractini
Genus Argyractis
Species drumalis (Argyractis drumalis - Hodges#4770)
Hodges Number
4770
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Argyractis drumalis (Dyar, 1906) (1)
Elophila drumalis Dyar, 1906
Petrophila drumalis (Dyar, 1906)
Phylogenetic sequence # 800746
Explanation of Names
Named for the type location of Fort Drum, Florida.
Argyractis drumalis (Dyar, 1906) was formerly in the genus Petrophila (Habeck D.H. & M.A. Solis, 1994).
Size
Forewing length less than 5 mm. (2)
Range
Florida. (3), (2), (1)
Moth Photographers Group has a record submitted by Bob Patterson from Maryland. (accidental import or error?)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
February, May to November. (1)
Food
Aquatic larvae feed on the roots of water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) and species of waterlily (Nymphaea) (4)
See Also
Compare with other related genera of the Argyractini which share the characters of subapical white rays on the FW and marginal eyespots on the HWs.
Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Dyar, H. G. 1906. The North American Nymphulinae and Scopariinae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 14(2): 92
Habeck D.H. & M.A. Solis, 1994. Transfer of Petrophila drumalis (Dyar) to Argyractis based on immature and adult characters with a larval description of Argyractis subornata (Hampson) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Nymphulinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society Washington 96: 726–734.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (5)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Works Cited
1.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
2.Synopsis of the genus Parargyracytis (Lepidoptera: Pyralydae: Nymphulinae) in Florida
John B. Heppner. 1976. The Florida Entomologist, volume 59, number 1.
3.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
4.Scientific notes: Immature stage of the aquatic moth Petrophila drumalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Nymphulinae) from....
F. Allen Dray, Ted D. Center, Dale H. Habeck. 1989. Florida Entomologist 72(4): 711-716.
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 2 March, 2016 - 10:57pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Jeff Hollenbeck, Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy
Last updated 9 December, 2019 - 11:36am

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