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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) » Spilomelinae » Mecyna » Mecyna mustelinalis - Hodges#5137 (Mecyna mustelinalis)

Species Mecyna mustelinalis - Hodges#5137

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Crambidae: Mecyna mustelinalis - Mecyna mustelinalis

Mecyna mustelinalis- - Mecyna mustelinalis

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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 Spilomelinae

Genus Mecyna

Species mustelinalis (Mecyna mustelinalis - Hodges#5137)

Hodges Number

5137

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mecyna mustelinalis (Packard, 1873)

Botys mustelinalis Packard, 1873

Botis catenulalis Grote, 1877

Botis monulalis Hulst, 1886

Size

FW length 12.5-16.5 mm.

Range

Western North America from California to the Yukon.

Remarks

Type locality: California, USA

Print References

Grote, A. R. 1877 b: New Pyralides, III. – The Canadian Entomologist, Ottawa 9: 105.

Hulst, G. D. 1886: Descriptions of new Pyralidae. – Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia 13: 154.

Munroe, E. G. 1950: The generic positions of some North American Lepidoptera commonly referred to Pyrausta Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). – The Canadian Entomologist, Ottawa 82 (11): 228.

Packard, A. S. 1873: Catalogue of the Pyralidae of California, with descriptions of new Californian Pterophoridae. – Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 10 (1874) (9): 262.

Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, Moths of Western North America, Pl. 23.28f; p. 178.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

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

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by John Davis on 4 July, 2009 - 5:08pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 24 April, 2016 - 2:18pm

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