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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) » Pyraustinae » Pyraustini » Loxostege » Christmas-berry webworm moth - Hodges#4994 (Loxostege floridalis)

Species Loxostege floridalis - Christmas-berry webworm moth - Hodges#4994

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Loxostege floridalis
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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 Pyraustinae
Tribe Pyraustini
Genus Loxostege
Species floridalis (Christmas-berry webworm moth - Hodges#4994)
Hodges Number
4994
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Loxostege floridalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1913
Range
Texas, Florida.
Food
Larbal host is Carolina desert-thorn (Lycium carolinianum var. quadrifidum).
Remarks
The four specimens from FL and three from TX and NM in the BOLD BIN for this species (BOLD:AAH5264) form two narrowly divergent clades
Print References
Barnes & McDunnough, 1913. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. 2(4): 173, pl. 2, fig. 3.(1)
Munroe, E., 1976. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 13.2a, p. 61; pl. 4.73-74.(2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group(3)
BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (4)
Works Cited
1.Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4)
William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.
2.The Moths of America North of Mexico - Fascicle 13.2a - Pyralidae: Pyraustinae
Eugene Munroe. 1976. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 24 July, 2018 - 12:03pm
Additional contributions by Blocky
Last updated 25 April, 2023 - 1:39am

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