Species Leptosteges xantholeucalis - Hodges#5300

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

Leptosteges xantholeucalis, possibly. - Leptosteges xantholeucalis

Leptosteges xantholeucalis - Hodges#5300 - Leptosteges xantholeucalis

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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 Schoenobiinae

Genus Leptosteges

Species xantholeucalis (Leptosteges xantholeucalis - Hodges#5300)

Hodges Number

5300

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Leptosteges xantholeucalis (Guenée, 1854)(1)

Parthenodes xantholeucalis Guenée, 1854

Patissa xantholeucalis

Scirpophaga fasciella Fernald, 1887

Size

Wingspan: 12-16mm (Fernald, 1887)

Identification

Rough Google translation: "14mm. Forewings, triangular, acute apex, right side: the hind wings narrow, undeveloped and acute, triangular; the four of pure white, silky, with a vague border, ochraceous. Forewings having two strips of a beautiful yellow ocher, without edging, straight, parallel, wide apart: the first with a reentrant point in the middle; the second joining the terminal border by a line towards the middle and joining it further to the internal angle. A strong cell spot of the same yellow, between the two lines, and at equal distance. Hind wings with an extracellular point and a short anal litter of the same yellow." (Guenée, 1854)

See Fernald (1887) in References below which has a very different description.

Range

Mississippi to Florida and North Carolina; Cuba.(2)

Type locality: Georgia

Print References

Fernald, C.H. 1887. North American Pyralidae. Entomologica Americana 3: 38.

Guenée, M.A., 1854: Deltoïdes et Pyralites. In: Boisduval, J. B. A. D. de & M. A. Guenée, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères 8(8): 253.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

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.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 July, 2018 - 12:15am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 10 September, 2019 - 4:22am

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