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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) » Grass-Veneers (Crambini) » Crambus » Crambus angulatus - Hodges#5405 (Crambus angulatus)

Species Crambus angulatus - Hodges#5405

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · 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 Crambinae (Crambine Snout Moths)

Tribe Crambini (Grass-Veneers)

Genus Crambus

Species angulatus (Crambus angulatus - Hodges#5405)

Hodges Number

5405

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Crambus angulatus (Barnes & McDunnough(1), 1918)

Agriphila angulatus

Crambus diegonellus Dyar, 1923

Numbers

Size

Wingspan 14-15 mm. (Barnes & McDunnough)

Identification

The original description is available online in the print references below.

Range

Southern California. (2)

Season

Adults are most common from June to October.

Original description from specimens collected in July and August.

Food

Larval host plant is unknown.

See Also

Haimbachia squamulella an eastern species.

Parapediasia ligonella found in Florida.

Compare on the plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough 1918. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 4: 171; pl. 24, fig. 15. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Works Cited

1.	James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.

2.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

3.	Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4) William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 June, 2013 - 7:32pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 4 January, 2017 - 10:48pm

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