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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) » Glaphyriinae » Abegesta » White-trimmed Abegesta - Hodges#4867 (Abegesta remellalis)

Species Abegesta remellalis - White-trimmed Abegesta - Hodges#4867

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References

White-trimmed Abegesta - Abegesta remellalis

? Abegesta remellalis - Abegesta remellalis

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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 Glaphyriinae

Genus Abegesta

Species remellalis (White-trimmed Abegesta - Hodges#4867)

Hodges Number

4867

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Abegesta remellalis (Druce, 1899)

Homophysa remellalis Druce, 1899

* phylogenetic sequence #146350

Identification

Adult - forewing yellowish-orange to brown; median line white, fairly straight, ragged-edged, jogs basally at costa; subterminal line white, wavy, angles sharply before reaching costa, and curves away from terminal line as it nears the inner margin; terminal line gray with black dots.

Range

Arizona and California.

Season

Adults fly from June to September.

See Also

Abegesta reluctalis forewing has less prominent subterminal line stays roughly parallel to the terminal line as it nears inner margin.

Print References

Druce, H. 1899. Lepidoptera-Heterocera. Biologia Centrali-Americana 2: 556

Munroe, E. 1964. New genera and species of Glaphyriinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Canadian Entomologist 96 (10): 1261-1307

Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.22.6f, p.172

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

live adult image from Arizona, plus date and location (Larry Line, Maryland)

common name reference (Moth Photographers Group)

presence in California; list of 3 specimens plus dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)

presence in Arizona; list (Bruce Walsh, Moths of Southeastern Arizona)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 29 July, 2007 - 2:21pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 12 April, 2013 - 9:25pm

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