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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) » Chrysauginae » Penthesilea » Penthesilea difficilis - Hodges#5554 (Penthesilea difficilis)

Species Penthesilea difficilis - Hodges#5554

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Tetraschistis leucogramma - Penthesilea difficilis

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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 Chrysauginae

Genus Penthesilea

Species difficilis (Penthesilea difficilis - Hodges#5554)

Hodges Number

5554

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tetraschistis leucogramma Hampson, 1904

Tetraschistis leucogramma was transferred to Penthesilea and recognized as a junior synonym of Penthesilea difficilis in Solis et al. (1995) (1).

Size

Wingspan 22 mm. (Hampson)

Identification

Original description of Tetraschistis leucogramma Hampson is online at the link in the print references below.

Range

Florida. (2), (3)

West Indies, Central and South America. (3)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Food

Larval hosts include: (3)

Golden dewdrops, Duranta [repens] erecta L.

Light-blue snakeweed, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl

See Also

Penthesilea sacculalis

Compare to related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Hampson, G.F. 1904. The Lepidoptera-Phalaenae of the Bahamas. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 14: 183.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M. 2015. ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086.

2.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

3.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 3 March, 2016 - 3:52pm

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