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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) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Nephopteryx Series » Sciota Group » Sciota » Sciota rubrisparsella - Hodges#5804 (Sciota rubrisparsella)

Species Sciota rubrisparsella - Hodges#5804

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
5804 - - Sciota rubrisparsella Hodges#5804 - Sciota rubrisparsella Moth - Sciota rubrisparsella unknown - Sciota rubrisparsella Sugarberry leaf damage by Sciota celtidella caterpillar - Sciota rubrisparsella #5804 - Sciota rubrisparsella? - Sciota rubrisparsella Hodges#5804 - Sciota rubrisparsella ID Needed - Sciota rubrisparsella
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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 Phycitinae
Tribe Phycitini
No Taxon (Nephopteryx Series)
No Taxon (Sciota Group)
Genus Sciota
Species rubrisparsella (Sciota rubrisparsella - Hodges#5804)
Hodges Number
5804
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sciota rubrisparsella (Ragonot, 1887)
Pristophora rubrisparsella Ragonot, 1887
Nephopteryx [sic] rufibasella Ragonot, 1887 (1)
Psorosa texanella Hulst, 1900: 174
Sciota croceella Hulst, 1888: 115
Identification
Genitalia:
♀
♂
Range
e. US, Colo. - Map (MPG)
Food
Hackberry (Celtis species, Ulmaceae) (2)
Life Cycle
Periodically defoliates Sugar Hackberry trees (Celtis laevigata)
Print References
Heinrich, C. 1956: Checklist of American Phycitinae. Bulletin - United States National Museum. 207: 131 (3)
Hulst, G. D. 1888: New genera and species of Epipaschiae [sic] and Phycitidae. Entomologica Americana 4: 115. (Sciota croceella)
Hulst, G. D. 1900: Some new genera and species of Phycitinae. The Canadian Entomologist. 32 (6): 174. (Psorosa texanella)
Ragonot, E. L. 1887: Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae and Galleriidae. p. 6-8
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (4)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)(6)
Works Cited
1.Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)
2.The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 15.5. Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae
H. H. Neunzig. 2003. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
3.American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae
Carl Heinrich. 1956. United States National Museum Bulletin 207: 1-581.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
6.Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)
Contributed by Bob Patterson on 5 June, 2010 - 7:45pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Mike Quinn, Robert Lord Zimlich, George Smiley, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 12 December, 2023 - 6:18am

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