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Species Homoeosoma asylonnastes - Hodges#5937.1

Representative Images

5944.99-Homoeosoma ??? - Homoeosoma asylonnastes Unknown Pyralid Moth, possibly Homoeosoma asylonnastes? - Homoeosoma asylonnastes Homoeosoma asylonnastes Homoeosoma asylonnastes
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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 (Homoeosoma Series)
Genus Homoeosoma
Species asylonnastes (Homoeosoma asylonnastes - Hodges#5937.1)

Hodges Number

5937.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homoeosoma asylonnastes Goodson & Neunzig, 1993 (1)

Numbers

The genus Homoeosoma includes more than twenty species in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)

Range

Tennessee and West Virginia to South Carolina records. (4)
Moth Photographers Group (3) - large map with some distribution data.

Print References

Goodson & Neunzig, 1993. North Carolina Agriculture Research Service Technical Bulletin, 303, p. 1-105. (access soon)
Neunzig, H.H., 1997. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.4. E. W. Classey, London, p. 107; pl. 4.21-22. (5)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.Taxonomic revision of the genera Homoeosoma (Curtis) and Patagonia (Hampson) . . .
R. L. Goodson, H. H. Neunzig. 1993. North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Technical Bulletin 303: 1-105.
2.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Arkansas Lepidoptera Survey
5.The Moths of North America north of Mexico. Fascicle 15.4. Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae (part)
H. H. Neunzig. 1997. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 August, 2013 - 12:28pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 12:02pm

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