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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) » Crambine Snout Moths (Crambinae) » Chilonini » Chilo » Chilo erianthalis - Hodges#5471 (Chilo erianthalis)

Species Chilo erianthalis - Hodges#5471

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Unidentified moth in Louisiana - Chilo erianthalis

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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 Crambinae (Crambine Snout Moths)

Tribe Chilonini

Genus Chilo

Species erianthalis (Chilo erianthalis - Hodges#5471)

Hodges Number

5471

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chilo erianthalis Capps, 1963

Explanation of Names

Specific name for the host plant Erianthus.

Numbers

There are three named species of Chilo in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan: (31)

♂ - 24 mm.

♀ - 25-28 mm.

Identification

Original description is online: (31)

Forewing gray with slight reddish tint.

The dark shaded veins are limited to the outer half of the wing.

Dark chevron shaped patch of scales in the median area.

Terminal line is a series of black dots.

Fringe is slightly metallic.

Determined by Richard Brown

Range

Louisiana to South Carolina(2) and Florida(3). (1), (4), (31)

West Indies. (4)

Type locality: USA: Louisiana, Port Blarre. (31)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Food

Saccharum [Erianthus] sp. (31)

Other grasses (Gramineae) likely. (4)

See Also

Compare to others on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Capps, H.W. 1963. Description of new species of Chilo (Crambidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 17(1): p. (31)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	South Carolina Moth Species

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 March, 2013 - 6:31pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 7:05pm

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