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Species Diastictis argyralis - White-spotted Orange Moth - Hodges#5253

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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 Spilomelinae
Tribe Agroterini
Genus Diastictis
Species argyralis (White-spotted Orange Moth - Hodges#5253)
Hodges Number
5253
Numbers
There are nine named species of Diastictis in America north of Mexico. (1), (2), (3)
Size
wingspan approximately 22-27 mm (4)
Identification
Forewing ground color varies from orange-yellow to dark fuscous, with darker specimens in summer; minute or obsolescent silvery spots as follows: round AM spot below cell and sometimes minute spot in cell above it; round or subquadrate spot in outer fourth of cell; spot below end of cell, arrowhead-shaped or quadrate with outer edge emarginate; series of three submargined spots in cells M2, M3 & Cu1, with the latter displaced basad of others; subapical series of three spots just beyond end of cell; spots usually with black rims on pale specimens. (4)
Range
Munroe reported from Alabama to North Carolina and Florida (4)
Print References
Powell, J. A., and P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. p. 180.(1)
Monroe, E. 1956. Restriction and Revision of the Genus Diastictis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). (4)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - map with some distribution data, photos of living and pinned adults.
Moth Photographers Group - photo of living adult and related species for comparison.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) - collection map and photos of pinned adults.
South Carolina Moth Species - county collection record and photo of pinned adult.
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Restriction and revision of the genus Diastictis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).
Eugene Munroe. 1956. The Canadian Entomologist 88: 208-228.