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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) » Epipaschiinae » Pococera » Pococera maritimalis - Hodges#5603 (Pococera maritimalis)

Species Pococera maritimalis - Hodges#5603

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · 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 Epipaschiinae

Genus Pococera

Species maritimalis (Pococera maritimalis - Hodges#5603)

Hodges Number

5603

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pococera maritimalis (McDunnough, 1939)

Tetralopha maritimalis McDunnough, 1939 (1)

Numbers

Pococera includes more than 26 species in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)

Identification

Specimen determined by DNA (BOLD) (4)

Range

Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas. (5), (6), (7) , (8)

Season

Adults are most common from May to September. (2)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD (4)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)

Works Cited

1.	An apparently new Epipaschid [Pococera] from Nova Scotia (Lepid.) J. McDunnough. 1939. The Canadian Entomologist 71(10): 221-222.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	Arkansas Lepidoptera Survey

6.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

7.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

8.	Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 2 April, 2010 - 2:58pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 7:49pm

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