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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Sesiini » Sesia » American Hornet Moth - Hodges#2543 (Sesia tibiale)

Species Sesia tibiale - American Hornet Moth - Hodges#2543

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Cossoidea (Carpenter and Clearwing Moths)
Family Sesiidae (Clearwing Moths)
Subfamily Sesiinae
Tribe Sesiini
Genus Sesia
Species tibiale (American Hornet Moth - Hodges#2543)
Hodges Number
2543
Other Common Names
Poplar clearwing borer
Cottonwod crown borer
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sesia tibiale (Harris, 1839)
Trochilium tibiale Harris, 1839
Sesia tibialis
Aegeria tibialis
* phylogenetic sequence #079625
Size
Forewing length 12-19 mm. (1)
Range
Nova Scotia and New England, west to Vancouver, British Columbia, Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, west to the Pacific Coast. (2)
Food
The larvae bore into the bark and wood of the lower trunk or exposed roots of species of Salicaceae; including Populus alba, P. candicans, P. deltoides, P. fremontii, P. tremuloides, P. trichocarpa, and Salix spp. (2)
Remarks
In flight they closely resemble wasps, even producing the droning sound. (2)
Strongly attracted to (Z,Z)-3,13-ODDA/(E,Z)-3,13-ODDA/(Z,Z)-3,13-ODDOH blended pheromone lures (Meyer & Cranshaw, 1994). (1)
Print References
Beuttenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 259-260, pl.33, f.13 (3)
Duckworth, W.D & T.D. Eichlin 1978. The Clearwing Moths of California (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). California Department Of Food and Agriculture Occasional Papers in Entomology 27: 1-80, f.1-40, pl.1-8 (PDF) (2)
Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 175-178 (4)
Harris, T.W., 1839. The American journal of science and arts. 36: 309
Meyer, W.L. & W.S Cranshaw 1994. Capture of Clearwing Borers (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) with three synthetic attractants in Colorado. Southwestern Entomologist 19(1): 71-76 (PDF)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.14.1f, p.124 (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
E.H. Strickland Museum
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.The Clearwing Moths of California (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae).
W. Donald Duckworth & Thomas D. Eichlin. 1978. California Department Of Food and Agriculture Occasional Papers in Entomology 27: 1-80, f.1-40, pl.1-8.
3.Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico.
William Beutenmüller. 1901. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 218-352, pl.29-36.
4.The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae.
George P. Engelhardt. 1946. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 1-222, pl.1-32.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 9 December, 2007 - 5:29pm
Additional contributions by Tom Bentley, Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 4 February, 2019 - 2:56pm

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