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Genus Rhectocraspeda

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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 Spilomelini

Genus Rhectocraspeda

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Also known as Pilemia, an older name which was found to be a junior homonym of a beetle genus. See here.

Numbers

One species in our area. (1)

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M. 2015. ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 20 March, 2010 - 5:33pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 2 April, 2016 - 8:24pm

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