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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) » Crambine Snout Moths (Crambinae) » Grass-Veneers (Crambini) » Thaumatopsis

Genus Thaumatopsis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Internet References

Thaumatopsis 2 - Thaumatopsis pectinifer

Woolly Grass-veneer Moth - Thaumatopsis pexellus

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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 Crambinae (Crambine Snout Moths)

Tribe Crambini (Grass-Veneers)

Genus Thaumatopsis

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Thaumatopsis (Morrison, 1874)

Synonym: Propexus (Grote, 1880)

Numbers

14 species in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

wingspan 23-31 mm, based on several photos by Jim Vargo at MPG

Identification

Adult: forewing slender, variably yellowish to brown, usually with white streaks or strips along veins, and no noticeable transverse lines; hindwing variably white to brownish to dark gray with no markings; palps long, projecting straight forward; abdomen long, slender

Range

much of United States and southern Canada: Florida to California, north to Alberta and Ontario

Habitat

grasslands and prairies

Season

adults fly from May to September in California; July to September in Alberta

Remarks

page creation based on Brian Scholtens' identification of this image

Internet References

pinned adult images of 7 species plus photos of related species by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)

pinned adult image of T. pexellus and T. fernaldella plus species accounts of both (G.G. Anweiler, Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta)

pinned adult images of T. floridalis (All-Leps)

pinned adult image of T. floridalis (Larry Line, Maryland)

presence in Ontario of T. pexellus and T. solutella list (NHIC; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)

presence in Florida; list of 6 species (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)

presence in California; list of 5 species (U. of California at Berkeley)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 24 January, 2008 - 11:06pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 8 January, 2013 - 12:02pm

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