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Species Galasa nigripunctalis - Hodges#5553

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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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