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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) » Loxocrambus » Loxocrambus hospition - Hodges#5436 (Loxocrambus hospition)

Species Loxocrambus hospition - Hodges#5436

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Loxocrambus hospition
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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 Loxocrambus
Species hospition (Loxocrambus hospition - Hodges#5436)
Hodges Number
5436
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Loxocrambus hospition (Bleszynski, 1963) (1)
Fissicrambus hospition Bleszynski 1963
Landry (1993) moved to Loxocrambus (1)
Numbers
There are five species of the genus Loxocrambus in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)
Range
Western Texas to southern Arizona. (4), (2)
Type location: AZ
Season
The adults appear to be most common from July to August. (2)
Print References
Bleszynski, 1963. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. Krakow, 8: 159; fig. 32 (fem. gen.) fig. 35 (male gen.). (5)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (listed only)(4)
Works Cited
1.The types of North American Crambinae (Lepidoptera Pyralidae) in the Natural History Museum, London.
Bernard Landry. 1993. The Canadian Entomologist, 125(6): 1077-1090.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
4.Moths of Southeast Arizona
5.Studies on the Crambidae (Lepidoptera). Part 41. On some tropical Crambidae with descriptions of new genera and species.
Bleszynski, Stanislaw. 1963. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 8 (3a).
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 August, 2013 - 7:07pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 2 August, 2018 - 1:53pm

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