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Species Leptosteges flavifascialis - Hodges#5302

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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 Schoenobiinae
Genus Leptosteges
Species flavifascialis (Leptosteges flavifascialis - Hodges#5302)

Hodges Number

5302

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Leptosteges flavifascialis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)
* phylogenetic sequence #158200

Numbers

one of 7 species in this genus in North America

Size

wingspan about 13 mm, based on photo by Jim Vargo at MPG

Identification

Adult: forewing white with golden-brown discal patch between two similarly-colored bands crossing wing; strip of same color along basal half of costa, and another strip from subterminal band to center of outer margin; terminal line brown; hindwing similar but with bands restricted to lower half of wing; fringe long and white on both wings

Range

South Carolina to Georgia south into Florida.
Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

See Also

Leptosteges flavicostella which has two dark dashes between the pm band and the apex

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.
Moth Photographers Group - pinned adult and related species for comparison.
presence of L. flavicostella in South Carolina; county distribution map (John Snyder, Furman U., South Carolina)
presence in Florida; list under the name Patissa flavifascialis (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)
distribution of L. flavicostella (Dalton State College, Georgia)
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 10 August, 2006 - 12:29pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman
Last updated 13 September, 2012 - 1:18pm

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