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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 » Synanthedonini » Synanthedon » Synanthedon fulvipes - Hodges#2563 (Synanthedon fulvipes)

Species Synanthedon fulvipes - Hodges#2563

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

Synanthedon fulvipes (Harris) - Synanthedon fulvipes - male

Sesiidae, Cape Breton Highlands - Synanthedon fulvipes

Unknown Clearwing Moth - Synanthedon fulvipes

Synanthedon fulvipes - Hodges#2563 - Synanthedon fulvipes - male

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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 Synanthedonini

Genus Synanthedon

Species fulvipes (Synanthedon fulvipes - Hodges#2563)

Hodges Number

2563

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Synanthedon fulvipes (Harris, 1849)

Aegeria fulvipes Harris, 1849

Thamnosphecia fulvipes

Sesia fulvipes

* phylogenetic sequence #080200

Explanation of Names

Fulvipes is Latin for "tawny-legged."

Size

Wingspan: ♂ 23-24 mm, ♀ 18-24 mm. (1)

Range

Across the northeastern United States where birch occurs early in the season (William H. Taft).

See Also

Synanthedon canadensis

Print References

Beutenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 290-291, pl.31, f.28 (2)

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 113-114 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

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.

2.	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.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 19 July, 2008 - 8:33pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 June, 2013 - 11:35am

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