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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 » Loxostege allectalis - Hodges#5000 (Loxostege allectalis)

Species Loxostege allectalis - Hodges#5000

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Loxostege allectalis #5000 - Loxostege allectalis

Loxostege allectalis - Loxostege allectalis

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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 allectalis (Loxostege allectalis - Hodges#5000)

Hodges Number

5000

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Loxostege allectalis (Grote(1), 1877)

Botis allectalis Grote, 1877

Eurycreon perplexalis Fernald, 1885

* phylogenetic sequence #149875

Size

Wingspan 21-26 mm.

Identification

Adult: forewing a mixture of speckled gray and brown patches and dark brownish irregular spots in median area; PM line irregular, meandering; terminal line a series of dark dashes; hindwing brownish-gray with pale fringe.

Range

Southern California(2) to Texas(3), south into Mexico and Central America. (4) , (5)

Food

Larval host is Berlandier's wolfberry (Lycium berlandieri).

Print References

Fernald, C.H. 1885. North American Pyralidae. Canadian Entomologist 17(3): 57 (Eurycreon perplexalis)

Grote, A.R. 1877. New Pyralides. Canadian Entomologist 9(6): 107

Munroe, E., 1976. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 13.2a, p. 63; pl. 3.5-6. (6)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Moths of Southeastern Arizona - photo of pinned adult

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

3.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

4.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	The Moths of America North of Mexico - Fascicle 13.2a - Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Eugene Munroe. 1976. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 20 February, 2008 - 10:18pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 31 March, 2013 - 9:48pm

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