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Species Conchylodes diphteralis - Hodges#5290

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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 Udeini
Genus Conchylodes
Species diphteralis (Conchylodes diphteralis - Hodges#5290)
Hodges Number
5290
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Conchylodes diphteralis (Geyer, 1832)
Lypotigris diphteralis Geyer, 1832
Numbers
Conchylodes includes four species in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)
Range
Heppner (2003) listed the range as Florida, West Indies to South America. (3), (4)
Moth Photographers Group includes Georgia. (2)
Season
Heppner (2003) reported adults in January, March to April, July to December for Florida. (4)
Food
Ellwood & Harvey (1990) and Heppner (2003) listed the larval host plant as Cordia sp. (Boraginaceae).(4)
Forbes (1923) listed Carya (pecan). (?)(5)
See Also
Print References
Ellwood, C.V. & J.M.V. Harvey 1990. The Lady Blake Collection: Catalogue of the Lady Edith Blake's collection of drawings of Jamaican Lepidoptera and plants. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 18(2): 193.
Forbes, W.T.M. 1923. The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Cornell University, 547. (5)
Geyer, C. 1832. Zuträge zur Sammlung Exotischer Schmetterlinge 4: 24, 346, figs. 691.
Walker, F. 1858. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 16: 494.
Works Cited
1.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
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.
5.The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States
William T.M. Forbes. 1923. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Memoir 68.
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems