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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Spilomelinae » Nomophilini » Mimophobetron » Mimophobetron pyropsalis - Hodges#5237 (Mimophobetron pyropsalis)

Species Mimophobetron pyropsalis - Hodges#5237

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Pyrausta moth? - Mimophobetron pyropsalis

Florida Moth for ID - Mimophobetron pyropsalis

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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 Nomophilini

Genus Mimophobetron

Species pyropsalis (Mimophobetron pyropsalis - Hodges#5237 )

Hodges Number

5237

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mimophobetron pyropsalis (Hampson, 1904)

Pyrausta pyropsalis Hampson, 1904

Pyrausta liopasialis Dyar, 1914

Pyrausta rhodope Hampson, 1913

Numbers

This is the only species in the genus Mimophobetron.

Range

Records from south Florida in our area.

Remarks

Type locality: Bahamas

Print References

Dyar, H. G. 1914 a: Report on the Lepidoptera of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. – Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington 47 (2050): 284.

Hampson, G. F. 1904: The Lepidoptera-Phalaenae of the Bahamas. – Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (ser.7) 14 (81): 165–188.

Hampson, G. F. 1913 b: Descriptions of new species of Pyralidae of the subfamily Pyraustinae. – Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (ser. 8) 12: 36.

Munroe, E. G. 1950: The generic positions of some North American Lepidoptera commonly referred to Pyrausta Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). – The Canadian Entomologist, Ottawa 82 (11): 222–223, figs. 5, 12, 21.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (1)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Ken Wolgemuth on 10 March, 2010 - 7:10pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 24 April, 2016 - 3:08pm

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