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Issue: Vol. 569 No. 1: 16 Jul. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-07-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.569.1.1
Page range: 1–7
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 23

Taxonomic note on Sarata tephrella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Pyralidae: Phycitinae)

Research Associate: Allyn Museum of Entomology/Florida State Museum, Sarasota, FL; C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropods Diversity, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL; 5405 Bill Nye Ave., R.R. 3, Laramie, WY, 82070, USA
Research Associate: Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL; 2217 Sky View Lane, R.R. 3, Laramie, WY, 82070,USA
Lepidoptera Phycitinae Pyralidae Pyraloidea Sarata tephrella taxonomy Wyoming

Abstract

The female of Sarata tephrella Ragonot is described for the first time. Variation in males and females is illustrated and discussed. Photos of the habitat are presented, and the larval host is postulated.

References

  1. Heinrich, C. (1956) American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 207, [i]–viii, 1–581.

    Neunzig, H.H. (2003) The Moths of America North of Mexico Including Greenland. Fascicle 15.5, Pyraloidea Pyralidae (part), Phycitinae, Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Washington, D.C., 330 pp, 10 color plates.

    Ragonot, E.L. (1893) Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae. In Romanoff, N. M., Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères, 7, 1–658, 23 color plates.