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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Epipaschiinae » Pococera » Double-humped Pococera Moth - Hodges#5608 (Pococera expandens)

Species Pococera expandens - Double-humped Pococera Moth - Hodges#5608

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
5608 Double-humped Pococera - Pococera expandens - male Pyralidae, Double-humped Pococera, larva on Oak - Pococera expandens Gray and white Pyralid - Pococera expandens Unknown Moth - Pococera expandens Double-humped Pococera - Pococera expandens Completely stumped on this one, sorry about that--no idea - Pococera expandens - female striped oak webworm caterpillar - Pococera expandens Double-humped Pococera - Pococera expandens
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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 Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)
Subfamily Epipaschiinae
Genus Pococera
Species expandens (Double-humped Pococera Moth - Hodges#5608)
Hodges Number
5608
Other Common Names
Striped Oak Webworm Moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pococera expandens (Walker, 1863)
Benta expandens Walker, 1863
Tetralopha nephelotella (Hulst, 1888) - synonym Munroe, 1963: 679
Tetralopha expandens
Explanation of Names
Author: Walker, 1863
Numbers
One of twenty-six species in the genus for North America
Size
Wingspan circa 26 mm
Food
oak
Life Cycle
larva, larval leaf shelter, close-up of larva, adult
See Also
Maple Webworm Moth - Pococera asperatella

many similar Pococera sp.
Kimball (1965) wrote, "The determinations in this genus [Tetralopha] are very difficult and many of them unreliable."(1)
Print References
Hulst, G.D. 1888 New genera and species of Epipaschiae and Phycitidae. Entomologica Americana. 4: 114 (description of nephelotella)
Munroe, E. 1963 A New Species of Tetralopha (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from Vaccinium. The Canadian Entomologist 95(7): 677-679
Walker, F. 1863 Crambites & Tortricites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. 27: 112
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Works Cited
1.The Lepidoptera of Florida: An Annotated Checklist.
Charles P. Kimball. 1965. Florida Dept. of Ag. Gainesville, FL. v + 363 pp.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Dennis Profant on 30 July, 2005 - 8:45pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Steve Nanz, Beatriz Moisset, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 6 August, 2019 - 12:08pm

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