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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Fairy Moths and kin (Adeloidea) » Yucca Moths and Allies (Prodoxidae) » Lamproniinae » Lampronia » Lampronia russatella - Hodges#0175 (Lampronia russatella)

Species Lampronia russatella - Hodges#0175

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Season · Food · Life Cycle · 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 Adeloidea (Fairy Moths and kin)
Family Prodoxidae (Yucca Moths and Allies)
Subfamily Lamproniinae
Genus Lampronia
Species russatella (Lampronia russatella - Hodges#0175)
Hodges Number
0175
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lampronia russatella (Clemens, 1860)
Incurvaria russatella Clemens, 1860
Lampronia tripunctella Walsingham, 1880
* phylogenetic sequence #005050
Numbers
Seven Lampronia species are found in America north of Mexico.
Size
wingspan about 12 mm
Identification
Head ochreous. Antennae dark brown, ochreous at the base, and annulated with ochreous. Thorax purplish brown. Forewings deep fuscous, with a beautiful purple reflection. Near the base of the wing is a very pale yellow band, broadest on the inner margin, and a costal and dorsal spot of the same hue opposite each other, a little beyond the middle of the wing. Hindwings pale fuscous tinged with purplish red; cilia pale brown.
Season
adults fly from May through July
Food
larval host unknown
Life Cycle
life cycle unknown
Remarks
diurnal
Print References
Clemens, B.1860 Contributions to American Lepidopterology. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1860: 5
Dyar, H.G. 1903 A list of the North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. p. 569
Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico (1)
Walsingham, T. 1880 On some new and little known species of Tineidæ. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1880: 92; pl. 12, fg. 11.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Microleps
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Moth Photographers Group - photo of pinned Lampronia russatella and related species.
Works Cited
1.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 10 April, 2010 - 10:03am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 23 February, 2017 - 3:42am

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