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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) » Pyralinae » Pyralini » Hypsopygia » Southern Hayworm Moth - Hodges#5531 (Hypsopygia nostralis)

Species Hypsopygia nostralis - Southern Hayworm Moth - Hodges#5531

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Food · 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 Pyralinae

Tribe Pyralini

Genus Hypsopygia

Species nostralis (Southern Hayworm Moth - Hodges#5531)

Hodges Number

5531

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hypsopygia nostralis (Guenée, 1854)

Herculia venezuelensis, Amsel, 1956

H. psammioxantha, Dyar, 1917 (90)

H. sordidalis, Barnes & McDunnough, 1913

Parasopia dissimilalis, Möschler, 1890

Pyralis tenuis, Butler 1880

P. helenensis, Wollaston, 1879

P. nostralis, Guenée, 1854

Size

Wingspan of males 16 mm, females 17-20 mm (Dyar 1917).

Range

North Carolina to Florida, Missouri to Texas; West Indies; Mexico to Brazil; Asia; St. Helena (Heppner 2003).(1)(2)

Season

January to December (Heppner 2003)(2)

Food

Peanut and alfalfa hay (Heppner 2003).(2)

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1917. Seven new Pyralids from British Guiana (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 5: 90.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(3)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

2.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 22 October, 2009 - 12:39pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton
Last updated 26 September, 2020 - 10:46am

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