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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Sarata Series » Honora » Honora mellinella - Hodges#5919 (Honora mellinella)

Species Honora mellinella - Hodges#5919

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · 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 Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)
Subfamily Phycitinae
Tribe Phycitini
No Taxon (Sarata Series)
Genus Honora
Species mellinella (Honora mellinella - Hodges#5919)
Hodges Number
5919
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Honora mellinella Grote, 1878
* phylogenetic sequence #175725
Numbers
5 species in the west(1)
Size
Forewing length 7-11 mm (Powell & Opler, 2009).(1)
Wingspan 16-24 mm (Heinrich, 1956).
Identification
Adult: FW blackish-fuscous. Head and thorax faded ocherous. Interior line white, not continued to costa. Yellow shade-spot below, near inner margin. Two separate, very small, dark, distal dots. Exterior line near the margin, even, narrow, and indistinct white. HW very pale fuscous, silky, with concolorous fringes.
Range
Southeastern states; in the west from Texas to California; Washington (Heinrich, 1956). Also Oklahoma.
Food
Known larval hosts are Palafoxia (Asteraceae) (Heinrich, 1956). Powell & Opler specify flower heads of desert palafox (P. arida) in the Mojave desert.(1)
See Also
Honora dotella is larger (8.5-12.5 mm) and has a red basal area.(1)
Print References
Grote, A. R. 1878. Preliminary studies on the North American Pyralidae. Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. 4(3): 702
Ragonot, E.L., 1901. Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae Vol. II. Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères / rédigés par N. M. Romanoff Vol. VIII: 185, pl. XXXI fig. 11.(2)
Heinrich, C. 1956. American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae. USNM Bulletin 207: 197
Internet References
Moth Photographer Group - species page
BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (3)
Jerry Powell photo of pinned adult
Mark Dreiling photo of living adult
Oklahoma Moth Checklist
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae Vol. II
Emile-Louis Ragonot. 1901. Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères / rédigés par N. M. Romanoff Vol. VIII, 602 pp., 34 pl.
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 29 September, 2009 - 12:28am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Blocky
Last updated 21 April, 2023 - 10:45pm

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