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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) » Schoenobiinae » Donacaula » sordidellus group (Donacaula sordidellus group) » Donacaula maximellus - Hodges#5324 (Donacaula maximellus)

Species Donacaula maximellus - Hodges#5324

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Food · Life Cycle · 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 Schoenobiinae
Genus Donacaula
No Taxon (sordidellus group)
Species maximellus (Donacaula maximellus - Hodges#5324)
Hodges Number
5324
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Donacaula maximellus (Fernald, 1891)
Schoenobius maximellus Fernald, 1891
Size
Fernald (1891) reported a wingspan of 63 mm.
Powell & Opler (2009) reported Donacaula maximellus and D. mellinella are among the largest of the group with forewing lengths 11-25 mm(1). Martinez's 2010 dissertation on the genus gives wingspans for mellinella as 21-34 mm and for maximellus as 32-58 mm (use of 'FWL' for these measures therein is erroneous and will be changed on publication).(2)
Food
Blanchard (1963) reported Zizaniopsis miliacea (Michx.) Doell & Aschers (Southern wild rice).
Life Cycle
Blanchard (1963) describes the life history in PDF.
See Also
This is a poorly understood group and identification from photos is difficult.
Print References
Blanchard, A., 1963. Contributions to the life history of Schoenobius maximellus (Pyralididiae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society., 17(4): 234. full text PDF
Fernald, C.H., 1891. New North American Microlepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 23(2). p. 30.
Martinez, E.L., 2010. A revision of the New World species of Donacaula Meyrick and a phylogenetic analysis of related Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Ph.D. dissertation, Miss. State Univ.(2)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 21, fig. 35; p. 170. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Butterflies and moths of North America (BAMONA) (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.A Revision of the New World species of Donacaula and a phylogenetic analysis of related Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
Edda Lis Martínez. 2010. ProQuest LLC.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Butterflies of North America
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 October, 2013 - 7:47pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Sexton, Blocky
Last updated 5 October, 2020 - 10:08pm

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