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Species Lineodes fontella - Eastern Lineodes Moth - Hodges#5106

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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
Genus Lineodes
Species fontella (Eastern Lineodes Moth - Hodges#5106)
Hodges Number
5106
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lineodes fontella Walsingham, 1913
Size
16-17mm (Walsingham, 1913)
Range
Seems to be restricted to coastal regions from Texas to Florida, north to North Carolina.
Remarks
Type locality: Jamaica
Print References
Dyar, H. G. 1913: The Separation of Some Species of Lineodes. – Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, Washington 1 (8): 94-96.
Walsingham, 1913 in Hampson, G. F. 1913 b: Descriptions of new species of Pyralidae of the subfamily Pyraustinae. – Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (ser. 8) 12: 314-15.