Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Sisyracera inabsconsalis - Hodges#5194.02

Moth, South Florida - Sisyracera inabsconsalis Moth in Boca Raton, FL - Sisyracera inabsconsalis Texas SE Gulf Coast - Sisyracera inabsconsalis Texas SE Gulf Coast - Sisyracera inabsconsalis Sisyracera inabsconsalis Sisyracera inabsconsalis
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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.