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 Compacta hirtalis - Hodges#5234

Texas SE Gulf Coast - Compacta hirtalis - female Compacta hirtalis Compacta hirtalis Compacta hirtalis Compacta hirtalis Compacta hirtalis Compacta hirtalis Compacta hirtalis
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 Margaroniini
Genus Compacta
Species hirtalis (Compacta hirtalis - Hodges#5234)
Hodges Number
5234
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Compacta hirtalis (Guenée, 1854)
Botys hirtalis Guenée, 1854
Botys amatalis Walker, 1859
Botys lybialis Walker, 1859
Size
Wingspan about 25 mm.
Range
Southern Texas and southern Arizona to Central America.
See Also
Compacta capitalis
Print References
Guenée, A., 1854. Deltoïdes et Pyralites. In J.A.B.D. de Boisduval and A. Guenée. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lepidoptéres. 8: 344
Walker, F. 1859. Pyralides. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. 18: 624-626.