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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) » Pyraustinae » Pyraustini » Epicorsia » Epicorsia oedipodalis - Hodges#4938 (Epicorsia oedipodalis)

Species Epicorsia oedipodalis - Hodges#4938

Pyraustine Crambid - Epicorsia oedipodalis

Caterpillars on Fiddlewood - Epicorsia oedipodalis

Caterpillar on Citharexylum berlandieri, fiddlewood - Epicorsia oedipodalis

Caterpillar hanging from thread - Epicorsia oedipodalis

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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 Epicorsia

Species oedipodalis (Epicorsia oedipodalis - Hodges#4938)

Hodges Number

4938

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Epicorsia oedipodalis (Guenée, 1854)

Botys oedipodalis Guenée, 1854

syn. Botys butyrosa Butler, 1878

Numbers

The only Epicorsia species found in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan about 38 mm. (1)

Identification

Identified by Jim Hayden, Curator of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Gainesville.

Thanks to Bob Patterson who was kind enough to forward the photo for the ID help.

Abdomen has a yellow dorsal line along the length.

Range

Florida.

Also recorded from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Bahamas and the Cayman Islands.

Food

Larval hosts include lancewood, Nectandra coriacea. (2)

Print References

Munroe, E. 1976. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 13.2a. p. 16; pl. 1.1.(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Moths of Jamaica

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	The Moths of America North of Mexico - Fascicle 13.2a - Pyralidae: Pyraustinae Eugene Munroe. 1976. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 January, 2012 - 7:49pm
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 12:18am

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