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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Pyralinae » Pyralis » Pyralis manihotalis - Hodges#5515 (Pyralis manihotalis)

Species Pyralis manihotalis - Hodges#5515

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References
Hodges #5515 - Tropical Meal Moth - Pyralis manihotalis Kitchen Moth - Pyralis manihotalis - female Kitchen Moth - Pyralis manihotalis - female Pyralis manihotalis Pyralis manihotalis? - Pyralis manihotalis Pyralis sp? - Pyralis manihotalis Unidentified moth - Pyralidae - Pyralis manihotalis Tropical meal moth - Pyralis manihotalis
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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 Pyralinae
Genus Pyralis
Species manihotalis (Pyralis manihotalis - Hodges#5515)
Hodges Number
5515
Other Common Names
Tropical meal moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pyralis manihotalis Guenée, 1854
Phylogenetic sequence # 164200
Size
Wingspan 12-20 mm.
Range
Florida, Texas to Central America.
Asia, Australia
Remarks
A pan-tropical species, probably introduced.
Print References
Guenée, 1854. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. p. 509.
Weistein, P. & Edwards, E.D., 1994. Troglophilic moths in Australia: first record of a self-sustaining population. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 33: 371-319. (Full text PDF)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 9 September, 2010 - 2:58pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Maury Heiman
Last updated 6 May, 2013 - 10:15am

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