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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) » Crambine Snout Moths (Crambinae) » Grass-Veneers (Crambini) » Crambus » Crambus satrapellus - Hodges#5372 (Crambus satrapellus)

Species Crambus satrapellus - Hodges#5372

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

MothCrambus_satrapellus10012015_AR_ - Crambus satrapellus

Crambus satrapellus - Crambus satrapellus

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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 Crambinae (Crambine Snout Moths)

Tribe Crambini (Grass-Veneers)

Genus Crambus

Species satrapellus (Crambus satrapellus - Hodges#5372)

Hodges Number

5372

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

3 synonyms listed at FUNET:

Crambus aculeilellus

C. aureorufus

C. elegantellus

Size

wingspan about 21 mm, based on photo by Jim Vargo at MPG

Identification

Adult: forewing light golden brown with silvery-white stripe that doesn't come close to touching costa, and is tapered at both ends; slender white "branch" diverges about midway along lower edge of stripe toward inner margin; distal end of stripe extends to subterminal line; separate spindle-shaped white dash lies beside distal end of stripe, and touches or extends beyond ST line almost to outer margin; ST line thin, dark; hindwing white to pale yellowish; top of thorax light golden brown; abdomen dark brown

Range

South Carolina to Florida, plus disjunct records from Maryland and Michigan

Season

adults fly from July to September in Michigan; perhaps an extended season in the south

See Also

Watson's Grass-veneer (Crambus watsonellus) forewing white stripe is broader (especially near the base) and almost touches the costa along the basal half of its length, but does not extend to the subterminal line, and the white spindle-shaped distal dash does not touch or extend beyond the ST line.

Also see images of other Crambus species by Jim Vargo at MPG.

Internet References

pinned adult image (Larry Line, Maryland)

pinned adult image by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)

live adult image (Giff Beaton, Georgia)

live adult image by Machele White, Florida (Moth Photographers Group)

presence in South Carolina; county distribution map (John Snyder, Furman U., South Carolina)

presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)

presence in Michigan; PDF doc list (Mogens Nielsen, Preliminary List of Michigan Moths, U. of Michigan)

synonyms (Markku Savela, FUNET)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 30 November, 2006 - 8:39pm
Last updated 3 September, 2007 - 8:36pm

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