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Genus Conchylodes

zebra pyralid - Conchylodes ovulalis moth? - Conchylodes concinnalis Conchylodes salamisalis Zebra Conchylodes - Conchylodes ovulalis Conchylodes diphteralis - Hodges #5290 - Conchylodes diphteralis Eight-barred Lygropia - Conchylodes octonalis White moth with dark line pattern. . . ID??? - Conchylodes ovulalis Conchylodes ovulalis
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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 Udeini
Genus Conchylodes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Conchylodes Guenée, 1854
Explanation of Names
Generic epithet Conchylodes is Greek meaning "resembles a cockleshell." (1), (2)
Numbers
Four species in our area. (3)
Conchylodes diphteralis
Conchylodes salamisalis
Conchylodes ovulalis
Conchylodes concinnalis
Remarks
Conchylodes platinalis is native to Central and South America; a specimen was collected in South Carolina in August 1964 and was assigned Hodges # 5293.1 here.
Print References
Covell, p. 402 (4)
Works Cited
1.An accentuated list of the British Lepidoptera, with hints on the derivation of the names.
Anonymous. 1858. The Entomological Societies of Oxford and Cambridge.
2.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
3.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.
4.Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths
Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.