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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) » Crambine Snout Moths (Crambinae) » Grass-Veneers (Crambini) » Fissicrambus » Changeable Grass-veneer - Hodges#5435 (Fissicrambus mutabilis)

Species Fissicrambus mutabilis - Changeable Grass-veneer - Hodges#5435

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Grass-veneer moth - Fissicrambus mutabilis

Crambid Snout Moth - Fissicrambus mutabilis

Changeable Grass-veneer - Fissicrambus mutabilis

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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 Crambinae (Crambine Snout Moths)

Tribe Crambini (Grass-Veneers)

Genus Fissicrambus

Species mutabilis (Changeable Grass-veneer - Hodges#5435)

Hodges Number

5435

Other Common Names

Striped Sod Webworm (larva)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Fissicrambus mutabilis (Clemens, 1860)

Crambus mutabilis Clemens, 1860

Synonym: Crambus fuscicostellus Zeller, 1863

Explanation of Names

Mutabilis from a Latin word "mutare" meaning changeable. This explains the origin of the common name Changeable Grass-veneer.

Size

Wingspan about 17 mm.

Larva to about 20 mm.

Identification

Range

Heppner (2003) reported the range to include New York to Florida, Illinois to Texas. (1)

McAlpine et al (2010) includes Prince Edward Island to Quebec.(2)

Habitat

Lawns, golf courses, grassy areas; adults may be flushed from grass during the day but are crepuscular/nocturnal and come to light.

Season

This species is bivoltine on Block Island, RI, with a first flight mainly early June to early July and a second early to late August.(3)

Food

The larvae feed on grasses at night.

Remarks

Beadle & Leckie (2012) stated the adults "Rests in a headstand position." (4)

There are many publications online concerning the pest status of turf management.

See Also

Parapediasia teterrellus Pediasia trisecta

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (6)

Butterflies and Moths of North America(7)

Moths of Maryland

Works Cited

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

2.	Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.

3.	Block Island Moths

4.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

7.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 11 August, 2006 - 10:54pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, anitagould, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Blocky
Last updated 14 June, 2022 - 2:02pm

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