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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Crambine Snout Moths (Crambinae) » Haimbachiini » Eoreuma » Wainscot Grass-veneer - Hodges#5492 (Eoreuma densellus)

Species Eoreuma densellus - Wainscot Grass-veneer - Hodges#5492

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Eoreuma
Species densellus (Wainscot Grass-veneer - Hodges#5492)
Hodges Number
5492
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eoreuma densella (Zeller, 1881)
Chilo densellus Zeller, 1881
Numbers
There are eight named species of the genus Eoreuma in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
8 to 9 mm long. Wingspan 15 to 18 mm.
Identification
Adult - Wings: Yellowish-white with white veins and brown speckles between the veins. A large dark dot about mid wing at end of discal cell. Wing tip has series of small dark dots. Fringe yellowish-white. Hind wing white. see key (2)
Genitalia:
Range
Ontario; Minnesota to Connecticut, south to Texas(3) and Florida(4). (1), (5), (6), (7)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data. Also North Dakota (2)
Habitat
Ponds and streams with water plants.
Season
April to October for most areas; year round in Florida. (1), (7)
June to July in Ontario
Food
Uncertain. (7)
Remarks
Type:
Holotype as Chilo densellus male by Zeller, 1881. Type Locality: Texas. In the British Museum of Natural History, London, England. In Zeller collection.
See Also
Xubida panalope has black veins and a whitish streak from center spot to wing tip.
Pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Klots, A. B. 1970: North American Crambinae. Notes on the tribe Chiloini and a revision of the genera Eoreuma Ely and Xubida Schaus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 78(2): 107, fig. 1. (2)
Zeller, P. C. 1881: Columbische Chiloniden, Crambiden und Phycideen. Horae Societatis entomologicae Rossicae 16: 157; pl 11, fig. 2.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1909, Vol. 11 by Dyar, pp. 27 to 28.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1910, Vol. 12 by Ely, pg. 204.
Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 1913, Vol. 2 by Barnes & McDunnough, pg. 217.
Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 1917, Vol. 5 by Dyar, pg. 86.
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1923, Memoir 68 by Forbes, pg. 592.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 1970, Vol. 78 by Klots, pp. 105 to 107.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (1)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.North American Crambinae. Notes on the tribe Chiloini and a revision of the genera Eoreuma Ely and Xubida Schaus...
Klots, A. B. 1970. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 78(2): 100-120.
3.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
4.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
5.South Carolina Moth Species
6.Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)
7.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 9 February, 2009 - 7:34am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Nick Block, lee_penner, Kyhl Austin, Blocky, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 25 May, 2024 - 1:27pm

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