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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

Honora mellinella for Louisiana for November - Honora mellinella

#5919 - Honora mellinella? - Honora mellinella

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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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