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Species Greya subalba - Hodges#0191

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Greya subalba - male Greya subalba - male
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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Adeloidea (Fairy Moths and kin)
Family Prodoxidae (Yucca Moths and Allies)
Subfamily Prodoxinae (Yucca Moths)
Genus Greya
Species subalba (Greya subalba - Hodges#0191)

Hodges Number

0191

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Greya subalba Braun, 1921(1)

Size

Braun (1921) listed the wingspan.(1)
♀ 11-14 mm.
♂ 14-16.5 mm.

Identification

Braun (1921) original description is online in print references.(1)

Range

Southern British Columbia, Alberta, to Washington, northern Idaho, western Montana.

Food

Larval host plants are in family Umbelliferae: Lomatium ambiguum, L. dissectum, L. grayi, L. triternatum, L. macrocarpum (Brown et al. 1994). Adults do not feed (Davis et al. 1992)(2) This is the only species of Greya that has ever been observed to simultaneously use different hosts at the same site (Thompson 1987).(3)

Print References

Braun, A. F., 1921. Two weeks collecting in Glacier National Park. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 73(1): 21.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(4)
BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data(5)
University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum(3)

Works Cited

1.Two weeks collecting in Glacier National Park
Annette F. Braun. 1921. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 73(1): 1-23.
2.Biology and systematics of Greya Busck and Tetragma, new genus (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae).
Donald R. Davis, Olle Pellmyr & John N. Thompson. 1992. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 524: 1-74, f.251-375.
3.University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 June, 2018 - 9:23pm
Last updated 17 June, 2018 - 9:56pm

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