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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) » Chrysauginae » Heliades » Heliades mulleolella  - Hodges#5574 (Heliades mulleolella)

Species Heliades mulleolella - Heliades mulleolella - Hodges#5574

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Chrysauginae
Genus Heliades
Species mulleolella (Heliades mulleolella - Hodges#5574)
Hodges Number
5574
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Heliades mulleolella (Hulst, 1887)
Pempelia mulleolella Hulst, 1887
Synonym
Xantippe uranides (Dyar, 1921)
Numbers
The only species in the genus found north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Hulst (1887) reported a wingspan of 13 mm.
Identification
The original description as Pempelia mulleolella Hulst, is available online in the print references.

Thanks to James Hayden, Curator, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, who corrected the identification of this group. Please see notes on the moth below
Range
NC south to FL and west to TX.
Moth Photographers Group map
Season
Year round in Florida, Alabama. (1), (2)
Food
Unknown. (2)
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (1)
Streptopalpia minusculalis
Print References
Hulst, G.D. 1887. New species of Pyralidae. Entomologica Americana. 3: 133.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (1)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (4)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.Moths of Southeast Arizona
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 May, 2011 - 8:36pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 7 September, 2021 - 9:14am

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