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Species Elophila tinealis - Black Duckweed Moth - Hodges#4754


Controlling Two Aquatic Plant Pests: Nymphuliella daeckealis (Haimbach) and the Waterlily Leafcutter, .....
By Stanton Gill, Rondalyn Reeser, Michael Raupp
Maryland Cooperative Extension, 2008
Controlling Two Aquatic Plant Pests: Nymphuliella daeckealis (Haimbach) and the
Waterlily Leafcutter, Synclita obliteralis (Walker)


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Aquatic and semiaquatic Lepidoptera, pp.765-789 In: Introduction to Aquatic Insects of North America
By Solis, M.A.
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa., 2019
Full citation:
Solis, M. A. 2019. Aquatic and semiaquatic Lepidoptera, pp.765-789 In: Introduction to Aquatic Insects of North America, R. W. Merritt, K.W. Cummins, and M.B. Berg (Eds.). 5th edition, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa. 1480 pp.

Notes on North American Nymphulinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae)
By Dyar, Harrison G.
Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 5(4-6):75-77, 1917

Descriptions of new species of North American crambid moths.
By William Dunham Kearfott
Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35: 367-393, 1909
Kearfott, W.D. 1909. Descriptions of new species of North American crambid moths. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35: 367-393.

A generic revision of the aquatic moths of North America: (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Nymphulinae).
By W. H. Lange, Jr.
Wasmann J. Biol., 14:59-144, 1956

Transfer of all western hemisphere Cybalomiinae to other subfamilies (Crambidae Pyraloidea: Lepidoptera): Elusia Schaus, Dichoch
By Solis, M.A.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111: 493–504, 2009
Solis M.A., 2009. Transfer of all western hemisphere Cybalomiinae to other subfamilies (Crambidae Pyraloidea: Lepidoptera): Elusia Schaus, Dichochroma Forbes, Schacontia Dyar, Cybalomia extorris Warren, and C. lojanalis (Dognin). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111: 493–504

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Studies on the Crambidae (Lepidoptera). Part 41. On some tropical Crambidae with descriptions of new genera and species.
By Bleszynski, Stanislaw
Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 8 (3a), 1963
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Some new North American Pyraustinae
By W. M. Barnes. & J. H. McDunnough
Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 1914