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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 » Margaroniini » Diaphania » Diaphania Moth - Hodges#5205 (Diaphania modialis)

Species Diaphania modialis - Diaphania Moth - Hodges#5205

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Hodges #5205 Diaphania modialis - Diaphania modialis

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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 Margaroniini

Genus Diaphania

Species modialis (Diaphania Moth - Hodges#5205)

Hodges Number

5205

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Diaphania modialis (Dyar, 1912)

Glyphodes infimalis modialis Dyar, 1912

Cryptographis infimalis modialis

Diaphania modialis Kimball, 1965 (1)

Size

WS 25 mm (Dyar, 1912)

Remarks

Type locality: Mexico, Cuernavaca

It seems unclear as to whether modialis was ever formally elevated to species and some authors treat it as a subspecies of Diaphania infimalis.

See Also

Diaphania infimalis is smaller with black border of forewing is narrower. Per Capps in Kimball (1965) (1), specimens of Diaphania modialis have been misidentified as this species which is not found in NA.

Diaphania indica has abdomen mostly white.

Diaphania hyalinata has abdomen mostly white and black border of forewing is narrower.

Diaphania elegans has first abdominal segment white.

Print References

Dyar, H. G. 1912: Some Lepidoptera from Mexico. – Pomona College Journal of Entomology, Claremont, Cal. 4 (2): 747.

Internet References

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

Works Cited

1.	The Lepidoptera of Florida: An Annotated Checklist. Charles P. Kimball. 1965. Florida Dept. of Ag. Gainesville, FL. v + 363 pp.

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 20 January, 2008 - 1:16pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 3 November, 2016 - 7:43am

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