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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) » Scopariinae » Eudonia » Eudonia leucophthalma - Hodges#4734 (Eudonia leucophthalma)

Species Eudonia leucophthalma - Hodges#4734

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Eudonia leucophthalma 4734 - Eudonia leucophthalma

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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 Scopariinae

Genus Eudonia

Species leucophthalma (Eudonia leucophthalma - Hodges#4734)

Hodges Number

4734

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eudonia leucophthalma (Dyar, 1929) (1)

Scoparia leucophthalma Dyar, 1929 (2)

Numbers

The genus Eudonia includes 18 named species in America north of Mexico. (3), (4)

Identification

The original description as Scoparia leucophthalma Dyar is avaiable online. (2)

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (5)

Range

California to British Columbia. (6), (4)

Holotype from Canada, British Columbia, Victoria. (2)

Season

The adults are most common from May to September. (4)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1929. Notes and new species of American moths in the genus Scoparia Haworth. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 74(2769): 24. (2)

Munroe, E.G. 1972. The Moths of America North of Mexico: Scopariinae, Nymphulinae. Fascicle 13.1A. p. 64, pl. 3, f. 34-36.(7)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Lepbarcoding.org

University of California, Berkeley

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	Notes and new species of American moths in the genus Scoparia (Haworth). Harrison G. Dyar. 1929. Proceedings of the United States National Museum.

3.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

6.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

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

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 November, 2012 - 7:10pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 9:56pm

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