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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) » Galleriinae » Cacotherapiini » Alpheias

Genus Alpheias

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers
Moth - Alpheias vicarilis 5646 - Alpheias vicarilis Arizona Moth - Alpheias vicarilis Arizona Moth for ID - Alpheias vicarilis Grey moth - Alpheias vicarilis Alphaeias querula - Alpheias querula Alpheias transferens? - Alpheias Alpheias querula? - Alpheias querula
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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 Galleriinae
Tribe Cacotherapiini
Genus Alpheias
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Alpheias Ragonot, 1891 (515)
syn. Amestria Ragonot, 1891
Explanation of Names
Generic epithet is a nymph in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Numbers
Four species in our area:
Alpheias oculiferalis Ragonot, 1891
Alpheias querula Dyar, 1913
Alpheias transferrens Dyar, 1917
Alpheias vicarilis Dyar, 1913
Contributed by Randy Hardy on 19 February, 2012 - 9:10pm
Last updated 25 January, 2019 - 1:20pm

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