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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) » Odontiinae » Eurrhypini » Pseudoschinia » Pseudoschinia elautalis - Hodges#4828 (Pseudoschinia elautalis)

Species Pseudoschinia elautalis - Hodges#4828

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · 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 Odontiinae
Tribe Eurrhypini
Genus Pseudoschinia
Species elautalis (Pseudoschinia elautalis - Hodges#4828)
Hodges Number
4828
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pseudoschinia elautalis (Grote(1), 1871)
Eurycreon elautalis Grote, 1871
Emprepes magnalis Hulst, 1886
Size
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the forewing length 10-13 mm. (2)
Identification
Grote (1871) original description as Eurycreon elautalis is online in the print references.
Mann (1969) described the larva as white, with several narrow crimson transverse bands. (3)
Range
Powell & Opler (2009) western Texas to southern California. (2)
Season
Powell & Opler (2009) reported a flight period of April through July. (2)
Food
McIntosh (2002) reports the hosts as California barrel cactus (Ferocactus cylindraceus) and candy barrel cactus (Ferocactus wislizeni).
Mann (1969) lists numerous prickly pear, barrel, and cholla cactus species in Opuntia and Cylindropuntia. Larvae primarily consume flowers and fruits of prickly pears while in barrel cactus fleshy growth is often preferred. (3)
Life Cycle
Mann (1969) reported the mature larvae pupate on the ground in circular cocoons covered with earth. (3)
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1881. New moths from Arizona, with remarks on Catocala and Heliothis. Papilio 1(9), p. 168
Hulst, G.D. 1886. Descriptions of new Pyralidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 13, p. 147.
Mann, J., 1969. Cactus-Feeding Insects and Mites. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 256, p. 78. (3)
McIntosh, M.E., 2002. Plant size, breeding system, and limits to reproductive success in two sister species of Ferocactus (Cactaceae). Plant Ecology 162, pp. 273–288. (PDF).
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 171; pl. 21, fig. 53. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.Cactus-feeding insects and mites
John Mann. 1969. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 256: 1-158.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 10 July, 2007 - 1:22am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 12 May, 2016 - 3:42pm

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