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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) » Glaphyriinae » Prorasea » Prorasea sideralis - Hodges#4920 (Prorasea sideralis)

Species Prorasea sideralis - Hodges#4920

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 Glaphyriinae
Genus Prorasea
Species sideralis (Prorasea sideralis - Hodges#4920)

Hodges Number

4920

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Prorasea sideralis (Dyar, 1917)

Numbers

There are six named species of Prorasea in America north of Mexico.

Range

California and Nevada to Montana. (1)
Munroe(2) (1972) states the range is restricted to eastern California deserts but the species has been recorded in a much wider area. (3)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults are most common from April through October. (MPG)

See Also

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

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1878. Preliminary studies of the North American Pyralidae, Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 4: 669.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
2.The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 13.1A. Scopariinae, Nymphulinae
Eugene Munroe. 1972. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
3.Moths of Southeast Arizona
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 February, 2013 - 12:10pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 8:54pm

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