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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) » Acentropinae » Argyractini » Petrophila » Schaeffer's Petrophila - Hodges#4784 (Petrophila schaefferalis)

Species Petrophila schaefferalis - Schaeffer's Petrophila - Hodges#4784

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

algae feeding moth - Petrophila schaefferalis

Petrophila schaefferalis - Petrophila schaefferalis

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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 Acentropinae

Tribe Argyractini

Genus Petrophila

Species schaefferalis (Schaeffer's Petrophila - Hodges#4784)

Hodges Number

4784

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Petrophila schaefferalis (Dyar, 1906)

Parargyractis schaefferalis (Dyar, 1906)

Elophila schaefferalis Dyar, 1906

Numbers

There are 17 named species of Petrophila in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan: (2)

♂ 17-20 mm.

♀ 24-29 mm.

Range

Southern Arizona to southern California (3), including the islands of Santa Cruz and Catalina.(4)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Habitat

Larvae are aquatic. (2)

Season

Adults fly from April to September. (4)

Life Cycle

Usinger (1956) describes life history. (2)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1906. North American Nymphulinae and Scopariinae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 14(2): 95. (5)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America, pl. 23.50, 23.51, p. 181. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	Aquatic Insects of California Robert L. Usinger, Editor. 1956. University of California Press.

3.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

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

5.	The North American Nymphulinæ and Scopariinæ Harrison G. Dyar. 1906. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 14(2): 77-107.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 September, 2009 - 9:59pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy
Last updated 12 August, 2019 - 12:30pm

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