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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) » Spilomelinae » Margaroniini » Palpita » Gracile Palpita Moth - Hodges#5220 (Palpita atrisquamalis)

Species Palpita atrisquamalis - Gracile Palpita Moth - Hodges#5220

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · 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 Spilomelinae
Tribe Margaroniini
Genus Palpita
Species atrisquamalis (Gracile Palpita Moth - Hodges#5220)
Hodges Number
5220
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Palpita atrisquamalis (Hampson, 1912)
Glyphodes atrisquamalis Hampson, 1912
Botis gracilalis Hulst, 1886 - syn. preocc. by (H.-S., 1871) (Botis)
Size
Forewing length 10-12.5 mm. (1)
Identification
Original description online: (archive.org) 151
Translucent white wings with pearly iridescence, the costa is brown, with a large, dark gray reniform and smaller orbicular spots.
University of California, Berkeley - large photo of pinned adult.
Range
California(2) to Texas(3) and Oklahoma. (1), (4)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Print References
Hampson, G.F. 1912. Descriptions of new Species of Pyralidae of the Subfamily Pyraustinse. The annals and magazine of natural history, including zoology, botany, and geology. ser. 8 v. 10(60): 569
Hulst, G. D. 1886. Descriptions of new Pyralidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society vol. 13(3-4), p. 151
Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p.179, pl.23.41 (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - map with some distribution data, living and pinned adults.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
3.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Cotinis on 13 December, 2006 - 12:40pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 29 December, 2016 - 4:58am

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