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Species Galasa nigripunctalis - Hodges#5553

Galasa nigripunctalis? - Galasa nigripunctalis

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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 Chrysauginae

Genus Galasa

Species nigripunctalis (Galasa nigripunctalis - Hodges#5553)

Hodges Number

5553

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Galasa nigripunctalis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)

Cordylopeza nigripunctalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 (1)

Galasa fulvusana Haimbach, 1915 (2)

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length as 8-10 mm. (3)

Range

Powell & Opler (2009) included southern Arizona to Colorado. (3)

Moth Photographers Group reports a population in the Maryland area(?) (4)

Holotype from Palmerlee, Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough 1913. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America 2(3): 134. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

University of California, Berkeley

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (5)

Works Cited

1.	New North American Lepidoptera with notes on described species Barnes, W., & McDunnough, J.H. 1913. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 2(3): 93-163.

2.	New Heterocera (Lep.). Frank Haimbach. 1915. Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 26: 321-325.

3.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 July, 2010 - 11:51pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 9 February, 2018 - 8:18am

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