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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ermine Moths and kin (Yponomeutoidea) » Sedge and False Diamondback Moths (Glyphipterigidae) » Sedge Moths (Glyphipteriginae) » Diploschizia » Yellow Nutsedge Moth - Hodges#2346 (Diploschizia impigritella)

Species Diploschizia impigritella - Yellow Nutsedge Moth - Hodges#2346

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also

Five-barred Glyphipterid Moth - Diploschizia impigritella

Yellow Nutsedge Moth - Diploschizia impigritella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Yponomeutoidea (Ermine Moths and kin)

Family Glyphipterigidae (Sedge and False Diamondback Moths)

Subfamily Glyphipteriginae (Sedge Moths)

Genus Diploschizia

Species impigritella (Yellow Nutsedge Moth - Hodges#2346)

Hodges Number

2346

Other Common Names

Yellow-nut Sedge Moth

Five-barred Sedge Moth

Five-barred Glyphipterigid

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Diploschizia impigritella (Clemens, 1863)

original combination Glyphipteryx impigritella Clemens, 1863; Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., v.2 (1), p.9

new combination Diploschizia impigritella; in Heppner (1981), Florida, Ent., v.64 (2), p.314

synonym Glyphipteryx exoptatella Chambers, 1875; in Busck (1903), Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v.5 (3), p.211

* phylogenetic sequence #073475

Explanation of Names

impiger is Latin for "active, quick, energetic": the original description says the type specimen was "Taken on wing"

Numbers

one of 8 species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

wingspan 7-9 mm

Identification

Adult: a tiny moth - forewing black to dark reddish-brown with five white crescents along costal margin, and large crescent at mid-point of inner margin; hindwing dark gray with long hair-like fringe scales; lacks vein M3

Range

Newfoundland to Florida, west to Texas and North Dakota; also occurs in California

Habitat

wet grasslands and marshes where foodplant grows

Food

larvae bore in stems and leaf sheaths of Yellow Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus), also known as Chufa, Flatsedge and Yellow Nutgrass

See Also

Diploschizia lanista is virtually identical but occurs only in southern United States (North Carolina southward)

Contributed by tom murray on 20 February, 2006 - 3:52pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Chuck Entz, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, Blocky
Last updated 30 September, 2023 - 7:01am

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