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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) » Pyraustinae » Pyraustini » Pyrausta » Pyrausta dapalis - Hodges#5054 (Pyrausta dapalis)

Species Pyrausta dapalis - Hodges#5054

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Can this butterfly be identified? (or is the image quality too poor)? - Pyrausta dapalis

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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 Pyraustinae

Tribe Pyraustini

Genus Pyrausta

Species dapalis (Pyrausta dapalis - Hodges#5054)

Hodges Number

5054

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pyrausta dapalis (Grote(1), 1881)

Botis dapalis Grote 1881

Numbers

There are 61 named species of the genus Pyrausta in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)

Size

FW length 7-9.5 mm.(4)

Range

California, Sierra Nevada. (5), (4)

Season

Adults fly early January to March.

Food

Larvae have been reared on several Salvia spp. (4)

Remarks

Diurnal species. (4)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1881. North American moths. The Canadian Entomologist 13. p. 17.

Munroe, E., 1976. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 13.2b. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 116; pl. 7.38-39, 41-42. (6)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. plate 23, fig. 12; p. 177. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

5.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

6.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 13.2B. Pyraloidea, Pyralidae (part), Pyraustinae, Pyraustini (conclusion)... Munroe, Eugene. 1976. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Tim Loh on 6 March, 2009 - 9:54am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 25 March, 2016 - 11:43pm

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