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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 » Mimorista » Mimorista subcostalis - Hodges#5139 (Mimorista subcostalis)

Species Mimorista subcostalis - Hodges#5139

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

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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 Mimorista

Species subcostalis (Mimorista subcostalis - Hodges#5139)

Hodges Number

5139

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mimorista subcostalis (Hampson, 1913)

Sameodes subcostalis Hampson, 1913

Pionea subcostalis Hampson 1913

Numbers

There are three species of the genus Mimorista in America north of Mexico. . (1), (2)

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length as 15.5-19.5 mm.(3)

Identification

Distinctive forewing pattern with the California specimens being smaller and less colorful.(3)

Range

California to Nevada, Colorado and Texas.(4), (2)

Moth Photographers Group map

Season

Adults are most often reported from April to October. (2)

Food

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the larval host plant and immature stages are unknown.(3)

Remarks

Type locality: USA, California, Colusa Co.

See Also

Mimorista trimaculalis

Diacme mopsalis

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group (2)

Print References

Hampson, G. F. 1913 a: Descriptions of new species of Pyralidae of the subfamily Pyraustinae. – Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (ser. 8) 11 (63, 66): 327-28.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 23.29; p. 179.(3)

Internet References

University of California, Berkeley

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

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

4.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 22 September, 2009 - 11:56pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 24 April, 2016 - 3:09pm

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