Genus Usingeriessa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

No. 162 Usingeriessa brunnildalis - Usingeriessa onyxalis

No. 179 Usingeriessa onyxalis? - Usingeriessa onyxalis

No. 323 Usingeriessa sp.? - Usingeriessa

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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 Acentropinae

Tribe Argyractini

Genus Usingeriessa

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Types species: Elophila brunnildalis Dyar 1906(1)

Explanation of Names

Named by Lange after California entomologist Robert L. Usinger.(2)

Numbers

Two species in North and Central America. Two other species names in Central and South America seem to have been synonymized with U. onyxalis.(3)

Identification

Distinguished from other related genera in the Argyractini tribe by the dark gray-brown forewings which have considerable white in PM band; the narrow white rays on outer forewing flank a wide dark brown triangle.

Life Cycle

The early stages are unknown, but the moths occur near fast streams, and it is likely that their biology resembles that of Parargyractis and other Acentropinae with aquatic larvae.(3)

See Also

Compare with other related genera of the Argyractini which share the characters of subapical white rays on the FW and marginal eyespots on the HWs.

Print References

Dyar, Harrison G. 1906. The North American Nymphulinae and Scopariinae. J. New York Ent. Soc., 14:77-107.(1)

Lange, W. H., Jr. 1956. A generic revision of the aquatic moths of North America: (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Nymphulinae). Wasmann J. Biol., 14:59-144.(2)

Munroe, E. 1972a. The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 13.1A. Scopariinae, Nymphulinae. The Wedge Ent. Res. Found.(3)

Munroe, E. 1972c. The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 13.1C. Evargestinae. + plates. The Wedge Ent. Res. Found.(4)

Works Cited

1.	The North American Nymphulinæ and Scopariinæ Harrison G. Dyar. 1906. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 14(2): 77-107.

2.	A generic revision of the aquatic moths of North America: (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Nymphulinae). W. H. Lange, Jr. 1956. Wasmann J. Biol., 14:59-144.

3.	The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 13.1A. Scopariinae, Nymphulinae Eugene Munroe. 1972. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

4.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, including Greenland. Fascicle 13.1c. Pyraloidea: Pyralidae (part),... Eugene Munroe. 1974. E.W. Classey.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 October, 2012 - 3:40pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Sexton
Last updated 9 December, 2019 - 11:51am

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