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Species Hydropionea fenestralis - Hodges#5125

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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 Hydropionea
Species fenestralis (Hydropionea fenestralis - Hodges#5125)
Hodges Number
5125
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hydropionea fenestralis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1914)
Clupeosoma fenestralis Barnes & McDunnough, 1914
Numbers
Hydropionea has two species in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Forewing length 12-15 mm.(2)
Identification
Hindwing is glossy white with a rust colored line along the base of the fringe.(2)
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)
Range
Southern Arizona to Durango, Mexico.(2)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Habitat
Mountain regions of southern Arizona and in the pine forests above 8500' in Mexico.(2)
Season
Adults have been recorded mostly from May through October. (4)
Food
Larval host is unknown.(2)
Print References
Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough 1917. Notes and new species. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. 4(2): 169.
Powell, J.A., and P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl. 23.21; p. 178.(2)
Internet References
University of California, Berkeley (specimen from Cochise County, Arizona)
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.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.North American Moth Photographers Group