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Species Acrobasis pallicornella - Hodges#5703

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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 Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)
Subfamily Phycitinae
Tribe Phycitini
No Taxon (Acrobasis Group)
Genus Acrobasis
Species pallicornella (Acrobasis pallicornella - Hodges#5703)
Hodges Number
5703
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Acrobasis pallicornella (Ragonot, 1887)
Trachycera pallicornella (Ragonot, 1887)
Rhodophaea pallicornella Ragonot, 1887
Numbers
The genus Acrobasis includes more that 44 species in America, north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Heinrich (1956) listed the wingspan as 15-19 mm. (2)
Range
Western Texas, Arizona.
Season
Adults are most common in May and September.
Print References
Heinrich, C., 1956. American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae, 207: 25. (2)
Neunzig, H.H., 1986. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.2, p. 69; pl. 1.26-29. (3)
Ragonot, 1887. North American Phycitinae Galleriidae: 3.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (listed as Trachycera pallicornella) (5)
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.American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae
Carl Heinrich. 1956. United States National Museum Bulletin 207: 1-581.
3.The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 15.2 Pyralidae (Part) Phycitinae
H. H. Neunzig. 1986. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.Moths of Southeast Arizona
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 July, 2013 - 10:47pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 3:06pm

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