Species Sisyracera inabsconsalis - Hodges#5194.02

Moth, South Florida - Sisyracera inabsconsalis

Moth in Boca Raton, FL - Sisyracera inabsconsalis

Texas SE Gulf Coast - Sisyracera inabsconsalis

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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 Spilomelinae

Tribe Udeini

Genus Sisyracera

Species inabsconsalis (Sisyracera inabsconsalis - Hodges#5194.02)

Hodges Number

5194.02

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sisyracera inabsconsalis (Möschler, 1890)

Diasemia inabsconsalis Möschler, 1890

Sisyracera contortilinealis (Hampson, 1895)

Samea contortilinealis Hampson, 1895

Nacoleia veroniae Dyar, 1917

Remarks

Landry (2016) synonymized Sisyracera contortilinealis (Hampson, 1895) with S. inabsconsalis (Möschler, 1890) (1).

Sisyracera contortilinealis was first identified in the United States from Florida by Hayden (pers. comm.) based on a 2012 specimen from Monroe Co. (2)

S. inabsconsalis had been reported from Florida by Heppner in 2007 (3).

Print References

Dyar, H. G. 1917: Seven new pyralids from British Guiana (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae). – Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, Washington 5 (4–6): 89.

Hampson, G. F. 1895: On the Geometridae, Pyralidae, and allied families of Heterocera of the Lesser Antilles. – Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (ser. 6) 16: 336.

Munroe, E. G. 1995 a: Crambidae (Crambinae, Schoenobiinae, Cybalomiinae, Linostinae, Glaphyriinae, Dichogaminae, Scopariinae, Musotiminae, Midilinae, Nymphulinae, Odontiinae, Evergestinae, Pyraustinae). Pp. 75. – In: Heppner, J. B., Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 2. Hyblaeoidea - Pyraloidea - Tortricoidea 3. – Association for Tropical Lepidoptera & Scientific Publishers, Gainesville.

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic revision of the Spilomelinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s. l.) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Landry, B. 2016. Revue Suisse de Doologie 123 (2): 315–399.

2.	Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M. 2015. ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086.

3.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 December, 2013 - 7:39pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 13 October, 2017 - 4:06am

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