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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Salebriaria » Engel's Salebriaria - Hodges#5773 (Salebriaria engeli)

Species Salebriaria engeli - Engel's Salebriaria - Hodges#5773

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

Engel's Salebriaria - Salebriaria engeli

Hodges #5773 Engel's Salebriaria Moth?? - Salebriaria engeli

Salebriaria engeli ?? - Salebriaria engeli

Salebriaria engeli - Engel's Salebriaria - Salebriaria engeli

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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 Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)

Subfamily Phycitinae

Tribe Phycitini

Genus Salebriaria

Species engeli (Engel's Salebriaria - Hodges#5773)

Hodges Number

5773

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Salebriaria engeli (Dyar, 1906) (1)

Salebria engeli Dyar, 1906 (2)

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of Lepidoptera collector and author Henry Engel (1873-1943) of Pittsburgh. His collection resides at the Carnegie Museum. (2)

Size

Wingspan about 16-20 mm.

Identification

The Dyar (1906) original description as Salebria engeli is online in the print references below.

The Heinrich (1956) revised description of Salebriaria engeli is in PDF. (1)

Adult: forewing dark brownish-gray with prominent white patch mid-way along inner margin; PM and subterminal lines dark, obscure, irregular; terminal line composed of thick black dashes, closely spaced; hindwing light grayish-brown with paler fringe.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD) (3)

Range

There are records from throughout eastern North America. (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The main flight period appears to be May to August. (9)

Heppner (2003) reported February; April to May in Florida. (7)

Food

Larvae feed on leaves of oak (Quercus spp.)

Heppner (2003) reported the host was unknown. (7)

See Also

Salebriaria turpidella forewing patch is smaller and yellowish; S. fasciata, rufimaculella, and tenebrosella all have larger white forewing patches that extend to the costa.

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1906. Descriptions of four new species of North American moths. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 14: 107. (2)

Neunzig, H.H., 2003. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.5. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 60; pl. 2, figs. 8-9. (10)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (9)

presence in Ontario; list (NHIC, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Harrison G. Dyer (Wikipedia)

Works Cited

1.	American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae Carl Heinrich. 1956. United States National Museum Bulletin 207: 1-581.

2.	Descriptions of four new species of North American moths. Harrison. G. Dyar. 1906. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 14(2): 107-108.

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

4.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

5.	South Carolina Moth Species

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

7.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

8.	Annotated list of Ontario Lepidoptera J. C. E. Riotte. 1992. Royal Ontario Museum 1-208.

9.	North American Moth Photographers Group

10.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 15.5. Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae H. H. Neunzig. 2003. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 28 May, 2008 - 6:38am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 12 February, 2023 - 6:27pm

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