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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ermine Moths and kin (Yponomeutoidea) » Sun Moths (Heliodinidae) » Neoheliodines » Neoheliodines hodgesi - Hodges#2502.5 (Neoheliodines hodgesi)

Species Neoheliodines hodgesi - Hodges#2502.5

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · 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 Yponomeutoidea (Ermine Moths and kin)

Family Heliodinidae (Sun Moths)

Genus Neoheliodines

Species hodgesi (Neoheliodines hodgesi - Hodges#2502.5)

Hodges Number

2502.5

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Neoheliodines hodgesi Hsu, 2005 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence #360225.00

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of Ronald W. Hodges (1934-2017), "leading microlepidoptera biosystematist, who made one of the largest collections of this species." (1)

Size

Forewing length 3.1-4.1 mm. (1)

Identification

Adult - original description available in Print References. (1)

Range

Known from southern Arizona, central Texas and southern Baja California Sur, Puebla, Mexico. (1), (2)

Holotype male: Ash Canyon 5100', Huachuca Mts., Cochise Co., Arizona, 8 VIII 1991 (Y.-F Hsu).

Season

Adults fly from June through October. (1)

Food

Larval host is scarlet spiderling (Boerhavia coccinea). (1)

Life Cycle

The larva skeletonizes the upper surface of host plant leaves from the flat web in which it lives. Pupation probably occurs in debris near the host. (1)

See Also

Neoheliodines vernius flies from late February through May. (1)

Print References

Hsu, Yu-Feng & J.A. Powell, 2004. Phylogenetic Relationships within Heliodinidae and Systematics of Moths Formerly Assigned to Heliodines Stainton (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology, 124: 43-46. (PDF) (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Yu-Feng Hsu

Jerry A. Powell

Works Cited

1.	Phylogenetic Relationships within Heliodinidae and Systematics of Moths Formerly Assigned to Heliodines Stainton Yu-Feng Hsu & Jerry A. Powell. 2004. University of California Publications in Entomology 124.

2.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 21 September, 2014 - 11:08am
Last updated 29 January, 2019 - 11:43am

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