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Genus Loxostege

Crambidae: Loxostege cereralis - Loxostege cereralis ID Request - Loxostege allectalis  Alfalfa Webworm   - Loxostege cereralis Crambidae: Loxostege sticticalis - Loxostege munroealis  Loxostege cereralis - Alfalfa Webworm - Loxostege cereralis Moth - Loxostege albiceralis Noctuidae species ID please - Loxostege cereralis Loxostege oberthuralis
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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 Loxostege
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Loxostege Hübner, 1825
Numbers
25 species in our area (1).
Range
holarctic: represented throughout Eurasia and North America
Print References
(2)
Works Cited
1.Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico
Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M. 2015. ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086.
2.Review of some species of Loxostege (Hübner) and descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera, Pyraustidae, Pyrausinae)
Hahn W. Capps. 1967. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 120(3361): 1-75.