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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) » Scopariinae » Gesneria » Gesneria centuriella - Hodges#4703 (Gesneria centuriella)

Species Gesneria centuriella - Hodges#4703

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

Gesneria centuriella maybe - Gesneria centuriella

800969 Gesneria centuriella ? - Gesneria centuriella

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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 Scopariinae

Genus Gesneria

Species centuriella (Gesneria centuriella - Hodges#4703)

Hodges Number

4703

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gesneria centuriella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Phalaena (Tinea) centuriella Denis and Schiffermüller, 1775 (1)

Gesneria centurionalis Hübner, 1824

Eudorea borealis Duponchel, 1835

Scopula numeralis Zetterstedt, 1839

Phycis quadratella Zetterstedt, 1839

Scoparia centurialis Guenée, 1854

Hypena caecalis Walker, 1858

Scopula caliginosalis Walker, 1865

Scoparia ninguidalis Hulst, 1886

Scoparia centuriella form confluella Krulikowsky, 1909

Numbers

Five subspecies total, four in our area: (beringiella, borealis, caecalis, ninguidalis)

Size

Wingspan 23-30 mm.

Identification

Adult: forewing variably gray to brown with black spots and jagged AM and PM lines; median area pale compared to dark distal half of wing; hindwing light yellowish-gray with dark discal spot and terminal band.

Range

Most of southern Canada and northern United States, also represented throughout northern Eurasia.

See Also

Shows more contrast between pale median area and dark terminal area than other closely-related species.

Print References

Denis, M. & I. Schiffermüller, 1775. Systematisches Verzeichniß der Schmetterlinge der Wienergegend: 319. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727-1806)

Michael Denis (1729-1800)

Works Cited

1.	Systematisches Verzeichniß der Schmetterlinge der Wienergegend. Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller. 1775. Augustin Bernardi, Wien. pp.323.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 April, 2006 - 8:58pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 15 February, 2018 - 3:12pm

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