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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Sack-bearer Moths (Mimallonoidea) » Sack-bearer Moths (Mimallonidae) » Cicinnus » Melsheimer's Sack-bearer Moth - Hodges#7662 (Cicinnus melsheimeri)

Species Cicinnus melsheimeri - Melsheimer's Sack-bearer Moth - Hodges#7662

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References

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Cicinnus melsheimeri - Cicinnus melsheimeri

Cicinnus melsheimeri - Melsheimer's Sack-bearer Moth - Cicinnus melsheimeri

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Mimallonoidea (Sack-bearer Moths)

Family Mimallonidae (Sack-bearer Moths)

Genus Cicinnus

Species melsheimeri (Melsheimer's Sack-bearer Moth - Hodges#7662)

Hodges Number

7662

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Saccophora melsheimeri Harris, 1841

Perophora melsheimeri Harris, 1841

Explanation of Names

Patronym for the Melsheimer Family.

Numbers

One sp. n. of Mexico

Size

wingspan about 35 mm, based on Moth Photographers Group specimen

Range

Widespread across North America

Habitat

Sandplain pitch pine–scrub oak barrens, especially in scrub oak thickets in the northeast. (Wagner et al. 2003)

Food

Quercus

Remarks

Type Locality: Dover, York Co., Pennsylvania

Print References

Harris, T.W. 1841. A report on the insects of Massachusetts injurious to vegetation. Rep. Insects Mass. injurious to Vegetation. 459 pp.

Wagner, D.L., M.W. Nelson, and D.F. Schweitzer. 2003. Shrubland Lepidoptera of southern New England and southeastern New York: ecology, conservation, and management. For. Ecol. & Mgmt. 185: 95-112.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group pinned adult specimen

Dorso, verso - James K. Adams, Georgia Leps, Dalton State

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 3 April, 2006 - 3:35pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Mike Quinn
Last updated 25 July, 2009 - 3:20pm

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