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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) » Acentropinae » Nymphulini » Chrysendeton

Genus Chrysendeton

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Internet References

Bold Medicine Moth, 4744 - Chrysendeton medicinalis

Acentropinae sp.? - Chrysendeton imitabilis

Gold and white moth - Chrysendeton medicinalis

Unidentified moth in Alabama - Chrysendeton medicinalis

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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 Acentropinae

Tribe Nymphulini

Genus Chrysendeton

Numbers

4 species in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

wingspan 11-13 mm, based on three specimens at MPG

Identification

Adult: forewing yellowish-brown to dark grayish-brown with white patches and yellow or orange terminal band bordered by white; hindwing white basally with dark median band, terminal line of large black spots, and white subterminal area containing patch of dense black speckling.

Range

Pennsylvania to Florida, west to Illinois

Season

Adults fly from April to at least July.

Food

unknown

Remarks

C. medicinalis appears to be the most commonly encountered species.

See Also

Petrophila species are similar but usually lack large white patches on forewing.

See the Argyractini page for how to distinguish the various genera with hindwing eyespots and white rays on the outer forewing.

Internet References

pinned adult images of three species by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)

pinned adult image of C. medicinialis by John Glaser, plus specimen dates (Larry Line, Maryland)

pinned adult image of C. medicinalis (David Smith, Furman U., South Carolina)

distribution (Dalton State College, Georgia)

presence in North Carolina; list of one species collected locally [C. medicinalis] (North Carolina State U.)

presence in Florida; list of all four species in North America (Florida State Collection of Arthropods)

presence in Illinois; list of C. medicinalis (Rickard Toomey, Illinois State Museum)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 20 April, 2006 - 4:24pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Sexton
Last updated 30 September, 2019 - 7:21am

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