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

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Double-humped Pococera Moth - Hodges#5608 - Pococera expandens Gray and white Pyralid - Pococera expandens Moth - Pococera expandens Double-humped Pococera - Pococera expandens Pyralidae, Double-humped Pococera, 2 larvae - Pococera expandens moth - Pococera expandens - female Double-humped Pococera - Pococera expandens 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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