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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 » Tinthiini » Zenodoxus » Zenodoxus rubens - Hodges#2519 (Zenodoxus rubens)

Species Zenodoxus rubens - Hodges#2519

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

Zenodoxus rubens Engelhardt - Zenodoxus rubens - male

Zenodoxus rubens - Hodges#2519 - Zenodoxus rubens

Marathyssa? Small, narrow-winged moth in West Texas - Zenodoxus rubens

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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 Tinthiini

Genus Zenodoxus

Species rubens (Zenodoxus rubens - Hodges#2519)

Hodges Number

2519

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Zenodoxus rubens Engelhardt, 1946

Zenodoxus bexari (considered a form or race of Z. rubens)

* Phylogenetic sequence #078950.

Explanation of Names

Rubens is Latin meaning "colored or tinged with red."

Size

Wingspan: ♂ 18-20 mm, ♀ 14-19 mm. (1)

Identification

Range

Texas and Arizona; type specimen collected in Davis Mountains, Texas.

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Season

Adults fly from September to November.

Food

Larvae probably bore in roots and lower stems of mallow (family Malvaceae), as do other species of Zenodoxus.

Print References

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 200-201, pl.32, f.187 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - collection map and photos of pinned adults.

Moths of Southeastern Arizona - pinned adults.

description of genus; PDF doc plus larval foodplants and discussion of included species, including locality of type specimens (Donald Duckworth and Thomas Eichlin, A Classification of the Sesiidae of American North of Mexico, California Dept. of Food and Agriculture)

Works Cited

1.	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.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 19 May, 2008 - 8:21pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 June, 2013 - 11:51pm

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