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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Pyraustinae » Pyraustini » Ecpyrrhorrhoe » Ecpyrrhorrhoe puralis - Hodges#4973.1 (Ecpyrrhorrhoe puralis)

Species Ecpyrrhorrhoe puralis - Hodges#4973.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Crambid Snout Moth - Ecpyrrhorrhoe puralis

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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 Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)

Subfamily Pyraustinae

Tribe Pyraustini

Genus Ecpyrrhorrhoe

Species puralis (Ecpyrrhorrhoe puralis - Hodges#4973.1 )

Hodges Number

4973.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ecpyrrhoerrhoe puralis South, 1901

Yamanaka dissimilis

Numbers

Ecpyrrhoerrhoe puralis is the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Wingspan about 25 mm.

Food

The larval host in North America is Paulownia tomentosa (Princess Tree, Foxglove-tree, empress tree or kiri).

Remarks

Naturalized species from Asia. Ecpyrrhorrhoe puralis was first reported in the United States from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia by Solis et al. (2010) (2).

See Also

Species in the genus Hahncappsia are smaller.

Anania leuschneri

Print References

Leech, J. H. & R. South 1901: Lepidoptera Heterocera from China, Japan, and Corea. Part V. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1901: 793; pl. 15,fig. 16.

Solis, M.A., Scholtens, B.G., Adams, J.K., Funk, D.H. 2010. First report of Ecpyrrhoerrhoe puralis (South) (Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) in North America: a naturalized exotic pyraustine from Asia feeding on Paulownia Siebold & Zucc. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 64(1): 33-35.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group.(1)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M. 2015. ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086.

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 September, 2010 - 3:38pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Kyhl Austin, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 15 March, 2019 - 7:19pm

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