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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Tinthiinae » Paranthrenini » Paranthrene » Paranthrene fenestrata - Hodges#2525 - Hodges#2525 (Paranthrene fenestrata)

Species Paranthrene fenestrata - Paranthrene fenestrata - Hodges#2525 - Hodges#2525

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Paranthrene fenestrata Barnes and Lindsey - Paranthrene fenestrata - male

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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 Tinthiinae

Tribe Paranthrenini

Genus Paranthrene

Species fenestrata (Paranthrene fenestrata - Hodges#2525 - Hodges#2525)

Hodges Number

2525

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Paranthrene fenestrata Barnes & Lindsey, 1922

* phylogenetic sequence #079100

Explanation of Names

Fenestrata is Latin meaning "a window." (1)

Size

Wingspan: ♀ 40-45 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - There are two color forms, one with mostly black wings and a red-orange and black body and another form with red-orange wings and black body. (3), (4)

Range

High elevations in southern Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and northern Mexico. (2), (5), (3)

Type Location: Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona.

Habitat

Associated with oaks forests. (3)

Remarks

Males respond well to ZZA pheromone baits. (3)

Print References

Barnes, W. & A.W. Lindsey, 1922. Descriptions of two new species of Aegeriidae (Lep.). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 17(4): 122

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 151, pl.28, f.166 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Southeastern Arizona - red-orange color form specimens

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	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.

3.	Paranthrene fenestrata Barnes and Lindsey

4.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Tom Bentley on 1 April, 2008 - 7:18pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 June, 2013 - 11:37pm

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