Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Zenodoxus heucherae Hy. Edwards, 1881
Parenthrene heucherae
Zenodoxus potentillae Hy. Edwards, 1881
* phylogenetic sequence #078850
Explanation of Names
Specific name heucherae from the genus name for alumroot (Heuchera). The adults were first found on flowers of Heuchera rubescens.
Range
Sierra Nevadas of California from Modoc County to Tuolumne County.
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Type Location: Lake Tahoe, California.
Food
Adults are known to visit the flowers of
pink alumroot (
Heuchera rubescens, Saxifragaceae) but it is not certain that is the larval host.
(1)Print References
Beuttenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6):
315-316,
pl.32, f.14m
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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)
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Edwards, Hy. 1881. New genera and new species of the family Aegeridae. Papilio 1(10):
205
Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. USNM Bulletin 190:
197 (2)Contributed by
Tom Bentley on 19 January, 2009 - 9:01pm
Additional contributions by
Randy HardyLast updated 21 June, 2013 - 8:10pm
