Biology:Asciodes
| Asciodes | |
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| Asciodes quietalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Spilomelinae |
| Tribe: | Asciodini |
| Genus: | Asciodes |
Asciodes is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae.[1] The genus was erected by Achille Guenée in 1854 with Asciodes gordialis as type species.[2]:374[3]:217
Distribution and habitat
The five species are distributed from the southern United States (California , Arizona, Texas , Florida, South Carolina) and Mexico over the Caribbean (Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles) to the tropical and subtropical South America (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador).[1][4][5][6]
Behaviour and ecology
Like other Asciodini, caterpillars of Asciodes commonly feed on Caryophyllales.[7] So far, only the food plants of Asciodes gordialis larvae have been recorded, which are mostly Bougainvillea, Mirabilis and Pisonia (all in the Nyctaginaceae family), but also non-Caryophyllales like Citrus (Rutaceae) and Manihot esculenta (Euphorbiaceae).[8]
Species
- Asciodes denticulinea (Schaus, 1940)
- Asciodes gordialis Guenée, 1854
- Asciodes quietalis (Walker, 1859)
- Asciodes scopulalis Guenée, 1854
- Asciodes titubalis Möschler, 1890
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedGlobIZ - ↑ Guenée, M. Achille (1854). "Deltoïdes et Pyralites". in Boisduval, Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de; Guenée, M. Achille. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères 8 8.. Paris: Roret. pp. 1–448.
- ↑ Shibuya, Jinshichi (1928). "The systematic study on the Formosan Pyralidae". Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, Sapporo 22 (1): 1-300, plates 1-9.
- ↑ "801372.00 – 5267 – Asciodes gordialis – Bougainvillea Caterpillar Moth – Guenée, 1854". 2019. http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5267.
- ↑ "Taxonomy Browser: Asciodes gordialis". http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=342023.
- ↑ "Asciodes gordialis". https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/330480-Asciodes-gordialis.
- ↑ Mally, Richard; Hayden, James E.; Neinhuis, Christoph; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Nuss, Matthias (2019). "The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77 (1): 141–204. doi:10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07. ISSN 1863-7221. https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/07_asp_77-1_mally_141-204.pdf.
- ↑ Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants". https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/index.dsml.
Wikidata ☰ Q4803901 entry
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