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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 » Eichlinia grandis - Hodges#2539 (Eichlinia grandis)

Species Eichlinia grandis - Hodges#2539

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Melittia grandis - Eichlinia grandis - male Melittia grandis (Strecker) - Eichlinia grandis - female found in garden - Eichlinia grandis found in garden - Eichlinia grandis Found these two moths mating on Buffalo Gourd - Eichlinia grandis - male - female Melittia sp.? - Eichlinia grandis - female Melittia sp.? - Eichlinia grandis - female M grandis - Eichlinia grandis
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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 grandis (Eichlinia grandis - Hodges#2539)
Hodges Number
2539
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Melittia grandis (Strecker, 1881)
Trochilium grande Strecker 1881
* phylogenetic sequence #079525
Numbers
6 n. of Mex. (1)
Size
Forewing length 16-21 mm. (2)
Identification

Melittia grandis (Strecker) - female
Det. R. E. Fleischer, 2010
Range
CA-TX-KS
Type Locality: Texas
Food
Larval Host: Cucurbita foetidissima - Missouri gourd
Plant Profile - USDA
Remarks
The host of this large moth is Curcurbita foetidissima. I have captured this moth in both southwest Kansas and southern Arizona but it is also found in California, Texas, New Mexico. The leg and abdomen coloration are good characteristics for positive identification as compared with M. gloriosa (William H. Taft, 29 June, 2008).
See Also
Melittia spp. - Moth Photo Group
Print References
Beuttenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 235-236, pl.29, f.4 (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)
Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 184-186 (5)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.13.18f, p.124 (2)
Strecker, H. 1881. Description of a new species of Trochilium. Can. Entom., 13(7): 156. Full Text
Internet References
Photos - Moth Photo Group
Large Photo - CalPhotos
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.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
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.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 29 June, 2008 - 7:21pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Randy Hardy, John Rosenfeld
Last updated 13 July, 2023 - 11:36am

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