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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) » Crambine Snout Moths (Crambinae) » Grass-Veneers (Crambini) » Platytes » Platytes Moth - Hodges#5394 (Platytes vobisne)

Species Platytes vobisne - Platytes Moth - Hodges#5394

Classification · Hodges Number · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Internet References

Crambidae: Platytes vobisne - Platytes vobisne

Creambidae, Platytes Moth, lateral - Platytes vobisne

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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 Crambinae (Crambine Snout Moths)

Tribe Crambini (Grass-Veneers)

Genus Platytes

Species vobisne (Platytes Moth - Hodges#5394)

Hodges Number

5394

Numbers

the only species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

wingspan 12-13 mm

Identification

Adult: forewing silvery-white with several dark brown lines, including zigzag PM and ST lines; hindwing dark gray; fringes of both wings long, silvery

Range

Internet records from scattered locations: Connecticut, Michigan, Ontario, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Alberta

Habitat

wet grasslands/prairies

Season

the few Internet records available are all in late June

Food

larvae presumably feed on one or more species of grass

See Also

Some other mostly white Crambini species look similar:

Crambus albellus Crambus perlella Arequipa turbatella Microcrambus copelandi Microcrambus biguttellus

Internet References

pinned adult image by C.D. Bird, plus habitat, description, presumed foodplant, distribution (Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta)

pinned adult image by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)

presence in Ontario; list (NHIC; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)

habitat and presence in Illinois (Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources)

presence in Wisconsin; list with date and location; search on species "vobisne" (Lepidopterists Society Season Summary, U. of Florida)

presence in Michigan; PDF doc list (Mogens Nielsen, Michigan State U.)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 22 July, 2007 - 7:39pm
Additional contributions by Blocky
Last updated 14 November, 2018 - 12:59am

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