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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Melittiini » Eichlinia » Glorious Squash Vine Borer - Hodges#2540 (Eichlinia gloriosa)

Species Eichlinia gloriosa - Glorious Squash Vine Borer - Hodges#2540

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Unknown bug (moth, whatever) - Eichlinia gloriosa

Melittia gloriosa Hy. Edwards - Eichlinia gloriosa - male

Glorious Squash Vine Borer - Eichlinia gloriosa - female

Glorious Squash Vine Borer_Melitta gloriosa - Eichlinia gloriosa

Melittia gloriosa - Eichlinia gloriosa - female

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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 Sesiinae

Tribe Melittiini

Genus Eichlinia

Species gloriosa (Glorious Squash Vine Borer - Hodges#2540)

Hodges Number

2540

Other Common Names

Manroot Borer, Big-root Borer

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Author: Hy. Edwards, 1880

Syn: Melittia lindseyi Barnes & Benjamin, 1925

Syn: Melittia barnesi Dalla Torre, 1925

* phylogenetic sequence #079550

Numbers

6 n. of Mex. (1)

Size

Wingspan 15-28 mm. Females average larger. (2)

Identification

Male & Female

both:

Melittia gloriosa Hy. Edwards

Det. R. S. Fleischer

Range

Kansas south to western Texas, west through New Mexico and Arizona southern California and the coastal islands, north to central Oregon. (2)

Type Locality: San Leandro, Alameda Co., CA

Season

Mostly: Aug-Sept (Full: Jul-Oct) (BG data)

Food

Larvae bore in the large tubers of various cucurbitaceous plants. (2)

See Also

Melittia spp. - Moth Photo Group

Print References

Beutenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 235, pl.29, f.3 (3)

Duckworth, W.D & T.D. Eichlin 1978. The Clearwing Moths of California (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). California Department Of Food and Agriculture Occasional Papers in Entomology 27: 1-80, f.1-40, pl.1-8 (PDF) (4)

Edwards, Hy. 1880. Descriptions of Some New Forms of Aegeridae. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 3(8): 71-72

Eichlin, T.D. 1992. Clearwing Moths of Baja California, Mexico (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Tropical Lepidoptera 3(2): 135-150 (PDF) (2)

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 188, pl.31, f.178-179 (5)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.13.20f, 13.21m, p.124 (6)

Williams, F.X. 1913. Notes on three Sesidae (Lepidoptera) affecting the "The Missouri Gourd" (Cucurbita foitidissima) in Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 8(5): 219-220

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.

Moths of Southeastern Arizona - photograph of pinned adult.

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	Clearwing Moths of Baja California, Mexico (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Thomas D. Eichlin. 1992. Tropical Lepidoptera 3(2): 135-150.

3.	Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. William Beutenmüller. 1901. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 218-352, pl.29-36.

4.	The Clearwing Moths of California (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). W. Donald Duckworth & Thomas D. Eichlin. 1978. California Department Of Food and Agriculture Occasional Papers in Entomology 27: 1-80, f.1-40, pl.1-8.

5.	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.

6.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 11 May, 2008 - 3:43pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, ceiseman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 19 June, 2013 - 5:36pm

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