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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Phycitinae » Phycitini » Sarata » Sarata rubrithoracella - Hodges#5874 (Sarata rubrithoracella)

Species Sarata rubrithoracella - Hodges#5874

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · 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 Pyralidae (Pyralid Moths)

Subfamily Phycitinae

Tribe Phycitini

Genus Sarata

Species rubrithoracella (Sarata rubrithoracella - Hodges#5874)

Hodges Number

5874

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sarata rubrithoracella (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913) (1)

Megasis rubrithoracella Barnes & McDunnough 1913

Numbers

There are eleven species of the genus Sarata in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)

Size

Barnes & McDunnough (1913) listed the wingspan.

♂ 28 mm.

♀ 25 mm.

Heinrich (1956) listed the wingspan 22-29 mm. (1)

Range

Heinrich (1956) reported the range to include Arizona and New Mexico. (1)

Holotype ♂, ♀ from White Mountains, Arizona.

Food

Heinrich (1956) listed the host plant as unknown. (1)

Print References

Barnes & McDunnough 1913. Phycitinae. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 2: 140; plate 7, figs. 7, 9. (4)

Heinrich, C., 1956. American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae. United States National Museum Bulletin, 207: 163; fig. 404. (1)

Neunzig, H.H., 2003. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 15.5. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 211; pl. 10.18. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Works Cited

1.	American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae Carl Heinrich. 1956. United States National Museum Bulletin 207: 1-581.

2.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 15.5. Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae H. H. Neunzig. 2003. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

3.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

4.	Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4) William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 November, 2013 - 7:33pm

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