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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Synanthedonini » Carmenta » Carmenta mariona - Hodges#2601 (Carmenta mariona)

Species Carmenta mariona - Hodges#2601

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · 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 Cossoidea (Carpenter and Clearwing Moths)

Family Sesiidae (Clearwing Moths)

Subfamily Sesiinae

Tribe Synanthedonini

Genus Carmenta

Species mariona (Carmenta mariona - Hodges#2601)

Hodges Number

2601

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Carmenta mariona (Beutenmüller, 1900)

Sesia mariona Beutenmüller, 1900

Synanthedon mariona

* phylogenetic sequence #081275

Size

Forewing length 7-10 mm. (1)

Wingspan 16-18 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - see Engelhardt in Print References. (2)

Range

Known from Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California, Arizona and New Mexico. (1), (3), (4)

Food

Larvae feed in the roots of Boraginaceae, including fiddleneck (Amsinckia) and narrowleaf stoneseed (Lithospermum incisum). (1)

Remarks

Carmenta mariona is one of the scarcest clearwing moths in collections.

Print References

Beutenmüller, W. 1900. Two new Sesiidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8: 254

Beuttenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 308, pl.33, f.21f (5)

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 31-32, pl.18, f.101-102 (2)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.14.11m, p.125 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

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

2.	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.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Sesiidae - ?

5.	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.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 24 February, 2010 - 4:46pm
Additional contributions by Bob Patterson, Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 June, 2013 - 6:20pm

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