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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) » Spilomelinae » Herpetogrammatini » Hileithia » Hileithia rehamalis - Hodges#5189 (Hileithia rehamalis)

Species Hileithia rehamalis - Hodges#5189

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Blepharomastix rehamalis - Hileithia rehamalis

Blepharomastix rehamalis - Hodges#5189 - Hileithia rehamalis

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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 Spilomelinae

Tribe Herpetogrammatini

Genus Hileithia

Species rehamalis (Hileithia rehamalis - Hodges#5189)

Hodges Number

5189

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hileithia rehamalis (Dyar, 1914)

Bocchoris rehamalis Dyar, 1914

Blepharomastix rehamalis Dyar, 1914

Size

wingspan about 15 mm, based on photo by Jim Vargo at MPG

Identification

Adult: wings white with irregular black lines; top of head yellow; top of thorax and abdomen white with black spots

Range

Texas, based on BugGuide posting

Season

adults fly in June-July in south Texas

Remarks

Blepharomastix magualis, aplicalis, rehamalis, and differentialis were transferred to Hileithia in Munroe (1995a). (1)

Print References

Dyar, H. G. 1914 b: Descriptions of new species and genera of Lepidoptera from Mexico. – Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington 47 (2054): 393.

Munroe EG. (1995a) Crambidae (Crambinae, Schoenobiinae, Cybalomiinae, Linostinae, Glaphyriinae, Dichogaminae, Scopariinae, Musotiminae, Midilinae, Nymphulinae, Odontiinae, Evergestinae, Pyraustinae). In: Heppner JB. (Ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 2. Hyblaeoidea – Pyraloidea - Tortricoidea 3 Association for Tropical Lepidoptera & Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, 60–79.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 August, 2007 - 7:19pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 23 April, 2016 - 1:09pm

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