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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 » Steniini » 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
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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 Steniini
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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