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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Ctenuchina » Pseudosphex » Pseudosphex leovazquezae - Hodges#8276.2 (Pseudosphex leovazquezae)

Species Pseudosphex leovazquezae - Hodges#8276.2

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Season · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References

Pseudosphex leovazquezae (Perez & Sanchez) - Pseudosphex leovazquezae

Mexican Blue-tailed Fly (Pseudosphex leovazquezae) - Pseudosphex leovazquezae

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Ctenuchina

Genus Pseudosphex

Species leovazquezae (Pseudosphex leovazquezae - Hodges#8276.2)

Hodges Number

8276.2

Other Common Names

"Mexican Blue-tailed Fly" (Coined by Chris Durden)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pseudosphex leovazquezae (Pérez & Sánchez)

Orig. Comb: Abrochia leovazquezae Pérez & Sánchez, 1986

Explanation of Names

Patronym for Leo Vazquez?

Numbers

1 sp. n. of Mex.

Range

southmost Texas (Hidalgo Co.) to C. Amer. - Map (MPG),(Donahue 1993)

Season

Texas records: Sept-Nov.

Life Cycle

Frequently taken at lights in eastern to southern Mexico (Hernández-Baz, 2012)

Remarks

Previous U.S. Records:

TEXAS: Hidalgo Co., Santa Ana Refuge, November 13, 1971 (1 female)

TEXAS: Hidalgo Co., Santa Ana Refuge, September 23, 1973 (1 male)

- both specimens collected by A. & M. E. Blanchard and deposited in the USNM.

Subsequent records:

TEXAS: Hidalgo Co., Mission, October 18, 2007 (spmn in the Texas Lepidoptera Survey Collection)

TEXAS: Hidalgo Co., Casa Santa Ana B&B, November, 29, 2016 (photographed by John S Christensen)

Print References

Donahue, J.P. 1993. Six species of tiger moths (Arctiidae: Lithosiinae, Ctenuchinae) new to the United States fauna, with notes on their nomenclature and distribution in Middle America. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 47(3): 199-210, 6 figs. (Full PDF)

Hernández-Baz, F. 2012. Las polillas avispa de México (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Ctenuchina y Euchromiina): Biogeografía y Conservación. Tesis Doctoral. Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico. 341 pp. (Full PDF)

Pérez-Ruiz, H. & R. Sánchez-Saradia. 1986. Entomofauna de la region de Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz III. Descripcion y algunas notas sobre la ecologia de una nueva especie del genero Abrochia H.-Schäff. (Lepidoptera, Ctenuchidae) An. Ins. Biol. Nac. Auton. de Univ. México 56 (Zool.) (l): 233-240.

Internet References

Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn, 2007

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 10 July, 2012 - 8:07pm
Last updated 21 February, 2019 - 10:03pm

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