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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Synanthedonini » Carmenta

Genus Carmenta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Print References · Works Cited
What Is This? - Carmenta ithacae Carmenta Clearwing Moth - Carmenta pyralidiformis Carmenta Clearwing Moth - Carmenta pyralidiformis Clearwing Moth sp. ? - Carmenta ithacae Clearwing Moth - Carmenta ithacae - female 9050944 Sesiid - Carmenta pyralidiformis - male Carmenta pyralidiformis - male Sesiidae moth on Coreopsis rosea - Carmenta pyralidiformis
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Cossoidea (Carpenter and Clearwing Moths)
Family Sesiidae (Clearwing Moths)
Subfamily Sesiinae
Tribe Synanthedonini
Genus Carmenta
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Carmenta Hy. Edwards, 1881
Explanation of Names
From the original descriptions (Edwards, 1881):
Carmenta was the most important of the Camenae, the prophetic nymphs belonging to the religion of ancient Italy. The traditions which assigned a Greek origin to her worship state that her original name was Nicostrate, and that she was the mother of Evander, with whom she came to Italy.
Numbers
32 species in North America north of Mexico (as of June, 2013). (1)
Print References
Edwards, Hy. 1881. New genera and species of the family Aegeridae. Papilio 1(10): 184
Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 45
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 2 August, 2005 - 3:17pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 June, 2019 - 11:28am

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