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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) » Spilomelinae » Loxostegopsis » Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta - Hodges#5116 (Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta)

Species Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta - Hodges#5116

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Hodges#5116 - Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta

Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta - Hodges#5116 - Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta - female

Arizona Moth - Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta

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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

Genus Loxostegopsis

Species xanthocrypta (Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta - Hodges#5116)

Hodges Number

5116

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta (Dyar, 1913)

Pyrausta xanthocrypta Dyar 1913 (1)

Numbers

Loxostegopsis has five species in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Forewing length 8-10.5 mm. (3)

Identification

The original description as Pyrausta xanthocrypta Dyar, is available in PDF or view online in the print references below. (1)

Range

Southern California and Nevada to southern Texas.(4), (2), (1)

Southern Florida ? (2)

Mexico. (1)

Season

Adults are most common from April to September. (2)

Remarks

Throughout the range Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta may possibly refer to two species. (3)

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1913. Descriptions of new Lepidoptera chiefly from Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 44: 319. (1)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America, pl. 23.18; p. 178. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Descriptions of new Lepidoptera, chiefly from Mexico Harrison G. Dyar. 1913. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 44: 279-324.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 April, 2013 - 11:31am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 29 October, 2018 - 3:39am

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