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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Peoriini » Arivaca » Arivaca Moth - Hodges#6062 (Arivaca ostreella)

Species Arivaca ostreella - Arivaca Moth - Hodges#6062

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · 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 Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)

Family Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)

Subfamily Phycitinae

Tribe Peoriini

Genus Arivaca

Species ostreella (Arivaca Moth - Hodges#6062)

Hodges Number

6062

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Arivaca ostreella (Ragonot, 1887); new comb. in Shaffer (1968) Bull. USNM 280 : 43

original combination Saluria ostreella Ragonot, 1887

syn. Peoria discostrigella Dyar, 1904; Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 6(2): 115

* phylogenetic sequence #181025

Size

wingspan about 25 mm, based on photo by Jim Vargo at MPG; 28 mm (Shaffer, 1968) (1)

Identification

Adult: forewing dull yellowish in lower half, and white in upper half; white area bisected longitudinally by brownish-yellow strip that begins near base and gradually widens until terminating at apex; fringe white; hindwing pale grayish-white with white fringe; top of thorax white with dull yellowish tegulae ("shoulders")

See Shaffer (1968) (1)

Range

southern Arizona to Brownsville, Texas (Shaffer, 1968) (1)

Season

Adults fly April through September (Shaffer, 1968)

See Also

other genera in the tribe Peoriini have either a single white strip along the costa or an otherwise different pattern on the forewing (compare images of several related species/genera by Jim Vargo at MPG)

Print References

Ragonot, 1887. Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae and Galleriidae. p. 18

Shaffer, J.C. 1968. A Revision of the Peoriinae and Anerastiinae (Auctorum) of America north of Mexico (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 280: 43; figs. 19 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

presence in New Mexico details of 4 slide preparations from specimens collected in or near Deming, New Mexico (Cornell U., New York)

Works Cited

1.	A Revision of the Peoriini and Anerastiinae (Auctorum) of America north of Mexico (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Jay C. Shaffer. 1968. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 280: .

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 January, 2008 - 4:36pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 14 March, 2016 - 8:35am

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