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Genus Oenobotys

Wine-tinted Oenobotys - Oenobotys vinotinctalis Genista Broom Moth - Hodges#4992 - Oenobotys vinotinctalis Wine-tinted Oenobotys Moth - Hodges #4940 - Oenobotys vinotinctalis Pyralid moth? - Oenobotys vinotinctalis Crambid Moth? - Oenobotys vinotinctalis Crambid Moth? - Oenobotys vinotinctalis tan-red Crambidae - Oenobotys vinotinctalis  Oenobotys texanalis? - Oenobotys vinotinctalis
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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 Oenobotys
Numbers
2 species in our area (1).
Size
wingspan about 14 mm, based on specimen by Jim Vargo at MPG
Identification
Adult: forewing brownish-red with black AM and PM lines and black discal spot; hindwing brownish-gray
Range
O. vinotinctalis: North Carolina to Florida, west to Texas
also occurs in Mexico and Central America
O. texanalis: endemic to Texas (?) - described in 1976 by Munro and Blanchard; type specimen collected in western Texas (Jeff Davis County)
Season
possibly flies all year in the south (?)
Internet References
pinned adult images of both species by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)
live adult image and presence in North Carolina (Randy Newman, North Carolina)
live and adult images of O. vinotinctalis by various photographers (Moth Photographers Group)
presence in Texas; list (James Gillaspy, U. of Texas)
presence in Florida; list (Florida State Collection of Arthropods)
distribution and references (Markku Savela, FUNET)
Works Cited
1.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.