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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) » Spilomelinae » Samea » Samea druchachalis - Hodges#5152.1 (Samea druchachalis)

Species Samea druchachalis - Hodges#5152.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Samea druchachalis - Hodges #5152.1 - Samea druchachalis

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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 Spilomelinae

Genus Samea

Species druchachalis (Samea druchachalis - Hodges#5152.1)

Hodges Number

5152.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Samea druchachalis Dyar, 1924

Numbers

Samea includes four species in America north of Mexico. (1)

Range

Southern Texas and Florida. Also found south in Mexico.

Heppner (2003) did not list Samea druchachalis in Florida. (2)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults are most common from May through September in Florida.

Texas records for November.

Food

Larval host is unknown.

Remarks

Type locality: Mexico, Colima; Sinaloa, Venadio

See Also

Samea ecclesialis

Samea multiplicalis

Print References

Dyar, H. G. 1924: New Lepidoptera from Mexico and one from Argentina. – Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, Washington 12 (1-3): 20.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 November, 2011 - 9:05pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 23 April, 2016 - 9:28pm

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