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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 » Neocataclysta » Scrollwork Pyralid Moth - Hodges#4743 (Neocataclysta magnificalis)

Species Neocataclysta magnificalis - Scrollwork Pyralid Moth - Hodges#4743

Scrollwork Pyralid Moth - Hodges #4743 - Neocataclysta magnificalis

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Scrollwork Pyralid Moth - Neocataclysta magnificalis

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Scrollwork Pyralid Moth - Hodges#4743 (Neocataclysta magnificalis) - Neocataclysta magnificalis

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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 Neocataclysta

Species magnificalis (Scrollwork Pyralid Moth - Hodges#4743)

Hodges Number

4743

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Neocataclysta magnificalis (Hübner, 1796)

Pyralis magnificalis Hubner 1796

Numbers

The only named species of Neocataclysta in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)

Size

Wingspan about 19 mm.

Identification

Hindwing has a yellow band along the outer margin with six black spots. Five of the spots have a blue center dot. (3)

Range

Nova Scotia(4) and Quebec to Florida and west to Louisana. (5), (6), (1), (7), (8), (9)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Habitat

Coastal.

Season

Adults are most common from April to August. (2)

Heppner (2003) reports February to August, and November to December for Florida. (8)

Food

Heppner (2003) reports larval host as unknown. (8)

Aquatic plants are likely.

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1906. North American Nymphulinae and Scopariinae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 14: 93.

Hubner, J. 1796. Verz. bek. Schmett. 6. Horde, die Zünsler 18, pl. 16, fig. 104.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD

lepbarcoding.org

McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 13.1A. Scopariinae, Nymphulinae Eugene Munroe. 1972. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, including Greenland. Fascicle 13.1c. Pyraloidea: Pyralidae (part),... Eugene Munroe. 1974. E.W. Classey.

4.	Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.

5.	South Carolina Moth Species

6.	Annotated list of Ontario Lepidoptera J. C. E. Riotte. 1992. Royal Ontario Museum 1-208.

7.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

8.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

9.	Neocataclysta magnificalis (Hbn.) in Louisiana Vernon Antoine Brou Jr. 2005. Southern Lepidopterists' News 27: 68.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 July, 2011 - 2:12pm
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 1:27am

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