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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) » Odontiinae » Odontiini » Edia » Edia semiluna - Hodges#4807 (Edia semiluna)

Species Edia semiluna - Hodges#4807

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · 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 Odontiinae

Tribe Odontiini

Genus Edia

Species semiluna (Edia semiluna - Hodges#4807)

Hodges Number

4807

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Edia semiluna (Smith, 1905)

Lythrodes semiluna Smith, 1905

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) listed a forewing length of 8-10 mm. (1)

Range

Southern Arizona and Mexico. (1)

Holotype ♂, Cochise County, Arizona, April 8, [1905], Mr. George Franck.

See Also

Edia minutissima is paler and smaller with a 5-6 mm forewing length. (1)

Print References

Barnes, W. & J. McDunnough (2), 1913. Species of Lepidoptera new to our fauna, with synonymical notes. The Canadian Entomologist, 45(6): 185.

Hampson, G.F, 1910. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 9: 216.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, plate 21.39; p. 170. (1)

Smith, J.B., 1905. New Noctuidae for 1905. No. 1. The Canadian Entomologist, 37: 67.

Internet References

University of California, Berkeley

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 2 August, 2013 - 11:04pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 1:51pm

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