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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Lichen Moths (Lithosiini) » Lithosiina » Crambidia » Crambidia myrlosea - Hodges#8048 (Crambidia myrlosea)

Species Crambidia myrlosea - Hodges#8048

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Prodoxus decipiens - Hodges#0200.1 ? - Crambidia myrlosea

Crambidia myrlosea Moth observed 10-29-2021 10:37 pm southwest Hamilton County, Texas - Crambidia myrlosea

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Lithosiini (Lichen Moths)

Subtribe Lithosiina

Genus Crambidia

Species myrlosea (Crambidia myrlosea - Hodges#8048)

Hodges Number

8048

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Crambidia myrlosea Dyar, 1917

Phylogenetic sequence # 930222 (1)

Numbers

There are ten named species of the genus Crambidia in America north of Mexico. (2)

Powell & Opler (2009) stated there are at least seven western species with some to be described. (3)

Size

Dyar (1917) reported a wingspan of 22 mm.

Identification

Dyar (1917) description.

"Head white, thorax gray. Fore wing with the costa broadly white, succeeded by dark gray, the veins faintly paler, especially towards costa. Hind wing dark gray."

Range

Southern Arizona to western and southern Texas. (2)

Holotype collected June 12, 1907, Kerrville, Texas, by F.C. Pratt.

Season

The main flight period is June to October.

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (2)

Print References

Dyar, H.G., 1917. Miscellaneous new America Lepidoptera. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 5(4-6): 67.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

4.	Butterflies of North America

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 30 September, 2013 - 1:37pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 11:04am

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