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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Window-winged Moths (Thyridoidea) » Window-winged Moths (Thyrididae) » Striglininae » Banisia » Sapodilla Borer Moth - Hodges#6086 (Banisia myrsusalis)

Species Banisia myrsusalis - Sapodilla Borer Moth - Hodges#6086

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Sapodilla Borer Moth - Hodges #6086 - Banisia myrsusalis unknown moth - Banisia myrsusalis Sapodilla Borer Moth - Banisia myrsusalis
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Thyridoidea (Window-winged Moths)
Family Thyrididae (Window-winged Moths)
Subfamily Striglininae
Genus Banisia
Species myrsusalis (Sapodilla Borer Moth - Hodges#6086)
Hodges Number
6086
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Banisia myrsusalis (Walker, 1859)
Rhodoneura myrsusalis Walker, 1859
Identification
Range
Heppner (2003) listed the range as Florida, West Indies. (1)
Reported in Australia, Asia and Africa.
Season
Heppner (2003) reported adults in Florida during May, June, August, and October to November. (1)
Food
Heppner (2003) reported two host plants. (1)
Chrysophyllum oliviforme L. (satinleaf) Sapotaceae.
Manilkara zapota (L.) P. Royen (sapodilla) Sapotaceae.
Print References
Swinhoe, C., 1900. Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum, 2: 410.
Whalley, P.E.S., 1971. The Thyrididae (Lepidoptera) of Africa and its islands. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, 17: 39.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Works Cited
1.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 July, 2013 - 4:17pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 2:44pm

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