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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 » Spilomelini » Salbia » Salbia mizaralis - Hodges#5286 (Salbia mizaralis)
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Spilomelinae - Salbia mizaralis
Copyright © 2020 Joseph Montes de Oca

Spilomelinae - Salbia mizaralis
Big Cypress, Monroe County, Florida, USA
April 11, 2020
Attracted to 395-400nm blacklight
iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42577789
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Contributed by Joseph Montes de Oca on 20 April, 2020 - 4:41pm
Last updated 19 May, 2020 - 7:43pm

Size?
I think Salbia mizaralis is correct but size will separate it from other similar species:

Salbia mizaralis FWL = 8-9 mm
Salbia tytiusalis FWL = ~6 mm
Salbia melanobathrum FWL = ~6 mm

May I have permission to use you image at MPG?
… Steve Nanz, 10 May, 2021 - 3:21am login or register to post comments

 
permission to post on MPG
sure, I have always thought about posting on there but never looked into it
… Joseph Montes de Oca, 11 May, 2021 - 9:17am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I added the image as a tentative ID.
… Steve Nanz, 11 May, 2021 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Bob Biagi, 19 May, 2020 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

Looks like...
It's got to be one of these two species in the genus Salbia.
-- vs. -- It looks more like the BOLD images of Salbia mizaralis, going by the shape of the PM line near the costal edge. (...a sharp inward dash, rather than a smooth curve) Otherwise they are nearly the same.
… Bob Biagi, 20 April, 2020 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Not sure
The pm. line does not match mizaralis. It should look like Gregory Raterman's tytiusalis which I think is misidentified. See Druce, 1899:558; pl. 101, fig. 10. (Tytiusalis should be more gray not brown.) The shading doesn't look right either for mizaralis. I think Jim Vargo's images at MPG may wrong too.

Edit - Disregard for now. The Vargo image is correct but I'm still working this out.
… Steve Nanz, 12 December, 2020 - 4:45am login or register to post comments

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