Genus Patania









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Genus Patania






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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 Patania













Synonyms and other taxonomic changes


Pleuroptya penumbralis is a synonym of P. silicalis



Pleuroptya fluctuosalis (Lederer, 1863) is treated as a synonym of Herpetogramma fluctuosalis at All-Leps; that species is listed as P. fluctuosalis at U. of Florida, and a specimen is shown at Moths of Southeastern Arizona




Numbers

One species in our area. (1)




Size

wingspan about 24-26 mm, based on two Internet photos




Identification

Adult: forewing yellowish-gray to orangish with dark gray AM and PM lines; AM line slightly ragged but almost straight; PM line toothed, with deep right-angled jog toward base in lower half; discal spot a dark gray crescent, sometimes faint; hindwing has similar color and markings but lacks AM line




Range

Missouri, Ohio, and New York, south to Florida


also occurs south through Central and South America to Brazil




Season

adults fly in summer in North America




Food

Larvae have been collected and reared on Convolvulaceae (Ipomoea batatas, Ipomoea setifera, Merremia umbellata), and Rivinia humilis, according to this reference (Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 52(2), 1998, 217-219).


also reported on Bougainvillea species in South America




Internet References


live adult image by Hugh McGuiness, presumably from New York, plus common name reference (Moth Photographers Group)



pinned adult image (John Snyder, Clemson University, South Carolina)



pinned adult image labelled as synonym penumbralis plus photos of related species by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)



2 pinned adult images and collection site map showing presence in Tennessee (All-Leps)



presence in Missouri and Ohio; list under synonym penumbralis (Dalton State College, Georgia)



presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)



larval foodplants plus synonyms, literature references, distribution (Markku Savela, FUNET)




Works Cited





1.
Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico
Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M. 2015. ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086.














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