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Species Occidentalia comptulatalis - Hodges#5474

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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 Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)
Subfamily Crambinae (Crambine Snout Moths)
Tribe Haimbachiini
Genus Occidentalia
Species comptulatalis (Occidentalia comptulatalis - Hodges#5474)
Hodges Number
5474
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Crambus comptulatalis Hulst, 1886
Food
Larvae bore in stems of bulrushes (Schoenoplectus spp.).
Print References
Frohne, W. C. 1939. Observations on the biology of three semiaquatic lacustrine moths. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 58(3):327-348.
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