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Mystery Crambidia - Crambidia xanthocorpa
Copyright © 2011 Anita Gould

Mystery Crambidia - Crambidia xanthocorpa
East Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
July 22, 2011
Size: 14.5 mm long
At a mercury vapor lamp, outlier patch of pine barrens. One of at least 2 individuals. Seems to match either Crambidia cephalica or the putative similar undescribed sp. that's been floating around. In either case, though, previous reports of those seem to be confined to the South.
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Contributed by Anita Gould on 21 August, 2011 - 11:11pm
Last updated 22 February, 2018 - 7:36pm

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I should also point out...
...that there is currently no evidence that Crambidia cephalica has ever occurred in NJ (but I would love to be proven wrong).
… Hugh McGuinness, 23 February, 2018 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Crambidia.
… Kyhl Austin, 22 February, 2018 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

Crambidia xanthocorpa
As can be seen in the photo the pronotum and the ptagia and the center of the thorax are all colored orange. This definitively IDs this as C. xanthocorpa. In addition, I have a female specimen from Anita Gould from the same location from 7/8/14 that is also C. xanthocorpa.
… Hugh McGuinness, 22 February, 2018 - 6:21pm login or register to post comments

Both the newly described species and C. cephalica
occur in the New Jersey pine barrens. Dissection probably necessary. Moved from Yellow-headed Lichen Moth.
… Kyhl Austin, 30 July, 2017 - 12:32am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Crambidia.

I am grateful to Chris Schmidt via Hugh McGuinness for the ID. Listed in Covell as only reaching WV, NC & KY, & nearest record on BugGuide (including the couple posted at genus level) is TN.
… Anita Gould, 23 August, 2011 - 1:07am login or register to post comments

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