Subfamily Odontiinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Yellow-veined Moth - Microtheoris ophionalis

Odontiinae? Crambid moth - Noctueliopsis rhodoxanthinalis

Pseudoschinia elautalis? - Pseudoschinia elautalis

Jativa castanealis? - Jativa castanealis

Crambid Snout Moth - Microtheoris ophionalis

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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 Odontiinae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Author: Guenée, 1854

Numbers

Unencumbered by phylogenetic analysis, this group has the distinction of having received the most extreme generic splitting of any Nearctic lepidopteran lineage, even butterflies, with 30 genera to accommodate 53 species in our area. (1) (2)

Remarks

The group is most numerous and diverse in eremic habitats where the moths are often diurnal. The larvae of Odontiini are generally leaf miners, while those of Eurhypiini are leaf folders, flower and bud feeders, and fruit and stem borers. Odontiine larvae use a wide range of host plants, but mostly Dicotyledonae. Male odontiines have a semi-membraneous uncus which is broad and distally bilobed, and the valva is more or less broadly rounded at the apex. (3)

Print References

Solis, M. Alma (2007) Phylogenetic studies and modern classification of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) (read online)

Internet References

Ongoing research on the subfamily, James Hayden

Works Cited

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

2.	Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M. 2015. ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086.

3.	Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 30 August, 2006 - 3:37pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 15 May, 2016 - 6:35pm

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