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Species Cangetta violescentalis - Hodges#5123.1

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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 Spilomelinae
Genus Cangetta
Species violescentalis (Cangetta violescentalis - Hodges#5123.1)
Hodges Number
5123.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cangetta violescentalis (Hampson, 1895)
Syngamia violescentalis Hampson, 1895
Deuterophysa micralis Hampson, 1907
Explanation of Names
Cangetta violescentalis (Hampson, 1895), n. comb., was formerly in the genus Deuterophysa and includes as a synonym Cangetta micralis (Hampson, 1907); generic placement follows the treatment of micralis in Hayden & Dickel (2014). (Hayden & Scholtens in Pohl & Nanz 2023)(1)
Range
Widespread in Caribbean and South America. Several specimens collected from 1975 to 1995 in the Florida Keys and one collected 1975 in the Everglades (Long Pine Key); lack of subsequent records likely due to lack of collecting effort (Hayden & Dickel, 2014).
Type locality (violescentalis): Greenland.
Type locality (micralis): Jamaica.
Print References
Hampson, G.F., 1895. On the Geometridae, Pyralidae, and allied families of Heterocera of the Lesser Antilles. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (ser. 6) 16: 337.
Hampson, G.F., 1907. Descriptions of new species of Pyralidae of the subfamilies Hydrocampinae and Scoparianae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (ser. 7) 19: 7.
Hayden, J,E. & T.S. Dickel, 2014. New North American records of Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Pyralidae) from southern Florida. Insecta Mundi, 0361: 1-16.
Internet References
Works Cited
1.Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.). 2023. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.