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Species Bicilia iarchasalis - Hodges#5271

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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 Spilomelinae
Tribe Asciodini
Genus Bicilia
Species iarchasalis (Bicilia iarchasalis - Hodges#5271)
Hodges Number
5271
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bicilia iarchasalis (Walker, 1859)
Lamprosema iarchasalis Walker, [1866]
Numbers
The only named species of the genus Bicilia in America north of Mexico. (1)
Identification
Determined by James Hayden and Brian Scholtens.
Range
Florida(2); Texas(3). (1), (4)
West Indies, Mexico to Venezuela. (4)
Type locality: Dominican Republic.
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Records of adults from March-May, August-September. (1), (4)
Food
Rivina humilis L. (Phytolaccaceae) (5), (4)
Print References
Lopez, B. 1998. New distributional and foodplant records for twenty Cuban moths. Journal of the Lepidoptersts' Society. 52(2): 215. (5)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (1)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
3.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
4.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
5.New distributional and foodplant records for twenty Cuban moths.
Bendicho Lopez. 1998. Journal of the Lepidoptersts' Society. 52(2): 214-216.
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 March, 2013 - 6:25pm
Last updated 7 April, 2014 - 7:44pm

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