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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Clearwing Moths (Sesioidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Tinthiinae » Paranthrenini » Euhagena » Euhagena nebraskae - Hodges#2535 (Euhagena nebraskae)

Species Euhagena nebraskae - Hodges#2535

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Unknown Moth in the Sangre de Cristos - Euhagena nebraskae

Sesiid moth, possibly Carmenta? - Euhagena nebraskae

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Sesioidea (Clearwing Moths)

Family Sesiidae (Clearwing Moths)

Subfamily Tinthiinae

Tribe Paranthrenini

Genus Euhagena

Species nebraskae (Euhagena nebraskae - Hodges#2535)

Hodges Number

2535

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Euhagena nebraskae Edwards, 1881

Pyrrhotaenia coloradensis (Beutenmüller, 1893)

E. intensa Engelhardt, 1946

E. mormoni Engelhardt, 1946

* phylogenetic sequence #079425

Explanation of Names

Nebraskae named for the type location of Nebraska.

Size

Wingspan 18-24 mm.

Forewing length 6-11 mm. (1), (2)

Identification

Adult - forewing orangish-red, outlined in black, and with broad black PM line; hindwing similar color with black discal spot; fringe on both wings prominent, dusky; antennae long, thick, black, pectinate; head and thorax covered with long loose black hairs mixed with silvery-white ones; abdomen black with thin white band on each segment; anal tuft black.

Range

Sandy situations from South Dakota and western Nebraska to Colorado, northern New Mexico and Utah. Disjunct population in the western Mojave Desert. (2)

Type location: Nebraska.

Season

Adults fly September and October. (2)

Food

Larvae bore in roots of evening primrose (Oenothera spp.). (2)

Remarks

Described by H. Edwards in 1881; nebraskae is the type species of the genus Euhagena

Print References

Beuttenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 239, pl.31, f.32 (3)

Duckworth, W.D & T.D. Eichlin 1978. The Clearwing Moths of California (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). California Department Of Food and Agriculture Occasional Papers in Entomology 27: 1-80, f.1-40, pl.1-8 (PDF) (1)

Edwards, Hy. 1881. New genera and new species of the family Aegeridae. Papilio 1(10): 181

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 170-171, pl.29, f.169-170 (4)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl. 12.47m, p.124 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

pinned adult image plus description, habitat, foodplant, distribution (G.G. Anweiler, Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta)

original text description; PDF doc of the synonym coloradensis by William Brutenmuller in 1896 (American Museum of Natural History)

presence in Texas one record in 1999 (Lepidopterists Season Summary, U. of Florida)

presence in Utah; list (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)

presence in California; list (U. of California at Berkeley)

Works Cited

1.	The Clearwing Moths of California (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). W. Donald Duckworth & Thomas D. Eichlin. 1978. California Department Of Food and Agriculture Occasional Papers in Entomology 27: 1-80, f.1-40, pl.1-8.

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

3.	Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. William Beutenmüller. 1901. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 218-352, pl.29-36.

4.	The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. George P. Engelhardt. 1946. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 1-222, pl.1-32.

Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 11 October, 2005 - 6:24am
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, Robin McLeod, anitagould, Randy Hardy
Last updated 19 June, 2013 - 7:13pm

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