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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) » Pyraustinae » Pyraustini » Saucrobotys » Dusky Saucrobotys - Hodges#4935 (Saucrobotys fumoferalis)

Species Saucrobotys fumoferalis - Dusky Saucrobotys - Hodges#4935

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Dusky Saucrobotys - Saucrobotys fumoferalis possible Saucrobotys fumoferalis - Saucrobotys fumoferalis Moth - Saucrobotys fumoferalis Not sure what to suggest for these - Saucrobotys fumoferalis Saucrobotys fumoferalis Saucrobotys fumoferalis Crambidae: Saucrobotys fumoferalis - Saucrobotys fumoferalis Dusky Saucrobotys Moth - Saucrobotys fumoferalis
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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 Pyraustinae
Tribe Pyraustini
Genus Saucrobotys
Species fumoferalis (Dusky Saucrobotys - Hodges#4935)
Hodges Number
4935
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Saucrobotys fumoferalis (Hulst, 1886)
Botis fumoferalis Hulst, 1886 (154)
Phylogenetic sequence # 148125
Numbers
There are two named species of Saucrobotys in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan about 25 mm. (1)
Identification
Original description online: (154)
Adult: forewing dark gray or sometimes brown; AM, PM, and ST lines, black, deeply and sharply toothed but usually indistinct, especially ST line; teeth of ST line end in pale points at terminal line, which is smooth and black; hindwing pale grayish-brown basally with toothed PM line and dark terminal band
Range
Across Canada and northern United States: in the east from Nova Scotia to Maryland and Illinois; in the west from Yukon Territory(2) to California(3) and Utah.
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Habitat
Boreal forest, mixed forests and woodlots in the south; adults are nocturnal and come to light.
Season
Adults fly from April to September. (1)
Food
Carya Nutt. (hickory); possibly Spreading Dogbane - Apocynum androsaemifolium
See Also
Saucrobotys futilalis forewing is paler and yellowish-brown, and its lines are less deeply toothed.
Also see pinned images of related species at MPG.
Print References
Hulst, G.D. 1886. Descriptions of new Pyralidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society vol. 13, p. (154)
Lafontaine, J.D., & D.M. Wood 1997. Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of the Yukon. In Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods). Ottawa: pp. 723-785. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - map with some distribution data, photos of living and pinned adults.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.
pinned adult image by John Glaser, plus dates and distribution (Larry Line, Maryland)
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Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.Butterflies and Moths of the Yukon
J.D. Lafontaine & D.M. Wood. 1997. In: Danks H.V., Downes J.A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa: 787–86.
3.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 23 August, 2006 - 6:16pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor
Last updated 10 February, 2022 - 2:55pm

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