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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) » Glaphyriinae » Cornifrons » Cornifrons actualis - Hodges#4922 (Cornifrons actualis)

Species Cornifrons actualis - Hodges#4922

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Cornifrons actualis - Hodges #4922 - Cornifrons actualis

Cornifrons actualis? - Cornifrons actualis

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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 Glaphyriinae

Genus Cornifrons

Species actualis (Cornifrons actualis - Hodges#4922)

Hodges Number

4922

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cornifrons actualis Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 (1)

Numbers

There are two named species of Cornifrons in America north of Mexico. (2), (1)

Size

Wingspan about 28 mm. (Barnes & McDunnough)

Identification

Description is online (Barnes & McDunnough). (168)

Range

California (3) to western Texas and north to Utah and Montana. (2), (4)

Munroe(5) listed the range as only in the eastern California deserts.

Type localities: USA: California, San Bernardino Co., Loma Linda; Riverside Co., Palm Springs.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Bug Guide data

Habitat

Desert.

Season

Most records of adults are from February to April; August. (2)

Food

Larval host unknown.

See Also

Prorasea species.

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Barnes & McDunnough, 1918. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America. p. (168)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

5.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, including Greenland. Fascicle 13.1c. Pyraloidea: Pyralidae (part),... Eugene Munroe. 1974. E.W. Classey.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 September, 2009 - 11:28am
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 23 April, 2023 - 2:19pm

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