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Family Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae)

Crambidae is a family in the order Lepidoptera. Browse 788 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.

Species in Crambidae (788)

Hellula rogatalis - Hodges#4846

Hellula rogatalis

Identification: Adult - FW brownish-yellow or grayish-yellow with wavy white AM, median, and PM lines; reniform spot smoothly-rounded, oval or kidney-shaped; ST composed of several equally-spaced black dots some distance from outer margin; HW light g

Helvibotys helvialis - Hodges#4980

Helvibotys helvialis

Identification: Adult: forewing variably yellowish, orangish, or tan with brown AM and PM lines; AM line a smooth shallow arc, almost straight; PM line a smooth shallow S-shaped curve; two discal spots in median area near costa are same color as AM a

Helvibotys pucilla - Hodges#4984

Helvibotys pucilla

Identification: Adult: forewing black in basal quarter/third and distal half, leaving broad yellow band in median area; hindwing yellow except for broad black terminal band; fringe yellow on all wings; antennae white from tip to beyond middle, then b

Hemiplatytes epia - Hodges#5507

Hemiplatytes epia

Identification: Sexually dimorphic. Forewing of female is whitish with a trace of brown markings. Hindwing white. Forewing of male is dark brown with black hindwing.

Serpentine Webworm - Hodges#5280

Herpetogramma aeglealis

Identification: Adults are sexually dimorphic. The HW of the males are dirty white with dark-grey shading on the discal spot, wing veins, subterminal area and an irregular but contrasting PM. Females have a golden hue. There are two forms, the typica

Herpetogramma aquilonalis - Hodges#5277.1

Herpetogramma aquilonalis

Identification: From the key to Canadian species of Herpetogramma - Terminal line of hindwing barely marked, usually represented by dark dots on wing veins.

Greater Sweet Potato Webworm Moth - Hodges#5244

Herpetogramma fluctuosalis

Identification: Similar to H. bipunctalis , but lacks the 2 dark brown spots on the second sternite of the abdomen. ( 3 ) Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). ( 4 )

Dusky Herpetogramma - Hodges#5274

Herpetogramma phaeopteralis

Identification: Adult: forewing medium to dark grayish-brown with blackish AM and PM lines; PM line toothed, sinuous; two dark spots in median area, the outer one larger; hindwing with similar pattern but slightly paler; fringe dark on all wings Larv

Zigzag Herpetogramma - Hodges#5277

Herpetogramma thestealis

Identification: "Forewing with high contrast between dark brown or beige marginal shade and basal areas" (Solis, 2010) , but see update in Handfield & Handfield .

Hileithia aplicalis - Hodges#5188

Hileithia aplicalis

Blepharomastix magualis, aplicalis, rehamalis , and differentialis were transferred to Hileithia in Munroe (1995a).

Hileithia differentialis - Hodges#5190

Hileithia differentialis

Identification: Determined by Jim Vargo. Blepharomastix magualis, aplicalis, rehamalis , and differentialis were transferred to Hileithia in Munroe (1995a).

Hileithia magualis - Hodges#5187

Hileithia magualis

Blepharomastix magualis, aplicalis, rehamalis , and differentialis were transferred to Hileithia in Munroe (1995a).

Hileithia rehamalis - Hodges#5189

Hileithia rehamalis

Identification: Adult: wings white with irregular black lines; top of head yellow; top of thorax and abdomen white with black spots Blepharomastix magualis, aplicalis, rehamalis , and differentialis were transferred to Hileithia in Munroe (1995a).

Hodebertia testalis - Hodges#5199.6

Hodebertia testalis

Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794) is now recognized from Florida and Texas in Hayden & Minno (2016), News Lepid. Soc., 58(4): 166-170.

Ornate Hydriris Moth - Hodges#5127

Hydriris ornatalis

Identification: Adult: forewing brownish-gray in basal area and beyond PM line; median area yellowish with shiny metallic orbicular and reniform spots; PM line black, thick, slightly wavy; diffuse blackish subapical streak extends from PM line to out

Hydropionea fenestralis - Hodges#5125

Hydropionea fenestralis

Identification: Hindwing is glossy white with a rust colored line along the base of the fringe. Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD).

Hydropionea oblectalis - Hodges#5124

Hydropionea oblectalis

Identification: Det. James Hayden of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera in Florida

Jativa castanealis - Hodges#4827

Jativa castanealis

Identification: Adult - forewing orangish-brown with broad white median band, splitting into a Y shape at the costa; oblique white band near base; hindwing slightly paler with wavy grayish median line; top of head white.

Black Langessa Moth - Hodges#4758

Langessa nomophilalis

Identification: The original description as Nymphula nomophilalis Dyar, is available online at the link in the print references below. - Determined by Bob Patterson.

Laniifera cyclades - Hodges#5236

Laniifera cyclades

Considered a pest of the commercial production of Opuntia prickly pear cactus or nopal.

Leptosteges flavifascialis - Hodges#5302

Leptosteges flavifascialis

Identification: Adult: forewing white with golden-brown discal patch between two similarly-colored bands crossing wing; strip of same color along basal half of costa, and another strip from subterminal band to center of outer margin; terminal line br

Leptosteges xantholeucalis - Hodges#5300

Leptosteges xantholeucalis

Identification: Rough Google translation: "14mm. Forewings, triangular, acute apex, right side: the hind wings narrow, undeveloped and acute, triangular; the four of pure white, silky, with a vague border, ochraceous. Forewings having two strips of a

Leucochroma corope - Hodges#5210

Leucochroma corope

In 1959 the United States Department of Agriculture reported Leucochroma corope was intercepted in Florida. Transported by airplane from from Panama.

Lineodes elcodes - Hodges#5109.1

Lineodes elcodes

Identification: The original description as Ciraphorus elcodes Dyar, is available in PDF or online in the print references below. Determined by Jerry Powell Introduced species that is considered a pest.

Eggplant Leafroller - Hodges#5107

Lineodes integra

Identification: Adult - forewing light brown, long and slender with pointed apex; dark brown arc begins at inner margin about one-third distance from base, and ends in subterminal area; white-outlined dark brown semicircular patch along costa near ap

Lineodes triangulalis - Hodges#5109

Lineodes triangulalis

Lineodes triangulalis - Hodges#5109 (Lineodes triangulalis) is a species in the family Crambidae, commonly known as crambid snout moths, belonging to the order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). It is classified within the subfamily Spilomelinae, t

Lineodes vulnifica - Hodges#5109.3

Lineodes vulnifica

Identification: See Hayden et al., species page at idtools.org This species has beed confused with Lineodes triangulalis in collections including the USNM collection where the lectotypes are kept, possibly the source of the confusion - paraphrased fr

Lipocosma albinibasalis - Hodges#4886

Lipocosma albinibasalis

Identification: Adult - white proximal half of forewing sharply divided from mostly dark brownish-gray distal half.

Loxostege allectalis - Hodges#5000

Loxostege allectalis

Identification: Adult: forewing a mixture of speckled gray and brown patches and dark brownish irregular spots in median area; PM line irregular, meandering; terminal line a series of dark dashes; hindwing brownish-gray with pale fringe.

Loxostege anartalis - Hodges#5010

Loxostege anartalis

Subspecies: Loxostege anartalis anartalis (California) Loxostege anartalis albertalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 (Manitoba west to the southern interior of British Columbia, north to the Northwest Territories and Alaska) Loxostege anartalis lulualis (

Alfalfa Webworm - Hodges#5017

Loxostege cereralis

Identification: Adult: forewing whitish or pale gray with several longitudinal black and brown streaks; whitish or pale yellow patch in median area near costa; subterminal area yellow, shaped liked an almost-flat triangle; fringe dark brownish-gray;

Loxostege commixtalis - Hodges#5016

Loxostege commixtalis

Loxostege commixtalis - Hodges#5016 (Loxostege commixtalis) is a species in the family Crambidae, commonly known as crambid snout moths, belonging to the order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). It is classified within the subfamily Pyraustinae, tr

Loxostege egregialis - Hodges#5003

Loxostege egregialis

Identification: Description can be found in MONA Fascicle 13-2A at link in citations below.

Christmas-berry webworm moth - Hodges#4994

Loxostege floridalis

The four specimens from FL and three from TX and NM in the BOLD BIN for this species ( BOLD:AAH5264 ) form two narrowly divergent clades (~0.5%). The one specimen from NM was identified by Munroe.

Loxostege lepidalis - Hodges#4995

Loxostege lepidalis

Identification: Adult - forewing a patchy mixture of white, black, and light yellowish-brown forming a distinctive pattern; terminal line a series of dark dashes; hindwing gray with partial whitish median band and yellowish-brown terminal band; fring

Beet Webworm Moth - Hodges#5004

Loxostege munroealis

Identification: Adult: forewing fringe scales black, contrasting with thin yellowish band along outer margin; ground color yellowish-brown with patchwork pattern of light and dark blotches; PM line very wavy, with a pale area distal to the line where

Loxostege sticticalis

Photograph required please to support records. Typically arriving in late summer or early autumn. The larval foodplants are Mugwort ( Artemisia vulgaris ) and Field Wormwood ( A. campestris ). Although suspected as a resident in the Breckland distric

Loxostege terpnalis - Hodges#4998

Loxostege terpnalis

Identification: plain gray forewing without basal brownish area, small orbicular and reniform spots, hindwing brownish

Loxostege typhonalis - Hodges#5001

Loxostege typhonalis

Identification: The original description is available online in the print references below.

Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta - Hodges#5116

Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta

Identification: The original description as Pyrausta xanthocrypta Dyar, is available in PDF or view online in the print references below. Genitalia: Throughout the range Loxostegopsis xanthocrypta may possibly refer to two species.

Lygropia fusalis - Hodges#5192

Lygropia fusalis

This species was mistakely placed in Lypotigris on BugGuide and MPG previously. This species is listed as Lygropia fusalis in Scholtens and Solis. They list the only Lypotigris species in our area to be Lypotigris reginalis . Dr. Scholtens says that

Bog Lygropia - Hodges#5250

Lygropia rivulalis

Identification: forewing ground color pale yellowish or cream; several irregular white patches are surrounded and connected by thick brown lines; the white patch nearest the anal angle is oval or circular; a broad white subterminal line becomes wider

Sweetpotato leafroller - Hodges#5248

Lygropia tripunctata

Identification: Description summary: Wings light yellowish and iridescent. Dark grayish-brown band along the costa that continues along the outer margin of both forewing and hindwing, being widest at the apex. Two black spots along the costa with the

Marasmia cochrusalis - Hodges#5289

Marasmia cochrusalis

Identification: FW middle portion of st. line or shade is narrowly separated from the pm. line. The HW pm. and st. lines tend to be more narrowly separated than in trapezalis with pm. line bending more toward the apex. The HW pm. line tends to align

Trapeze Moth - Hodges#5288

Marasmia trapezalis

Identification: FW middle portion of st. line or shade is more widely separated from the pm. line than in cochrusalis . The HW pm. and st. lines of cochrusalis tend to be more narrowly separated with pm. line bending more toward the apex. The HW pm.

Mung Moth

Maruca vitrata

Wingspan 28 to 34 mm. A distinctive species. A rare species in VC55. Please provide a photograph and retain moth until identification is confirmed. A very rare vagrant or adventive species, possibly imported from the Tropics in leguminous vegetables.

Orange-toned Mecyna - Hodges#5135

Mecyna submedialis

Identification: Adult: forewing light orangish-yellow with jagged brown AM and PM lines; reniform spot a short horizontal brown bar; orbicular spot small and solid brown; area between reniform spot and AM line clear yellow, surrounded by orangish-bro

Mesolia huachucaella - Hodges#5330

Mesolia huachucaella

Identification: "This species is unlike any of our Mesolia-Prionapteryx group in the decided grayer hue of the fore wings; all the other species have a superficially ochreous or ochreous-brown tinge, and it can be easily separated by this character..

Microcrambus copelandi - Hodges#5418

Microcrambus copelandi

Microcrambus copelandi - Hodges#5418 (Microcrambus copelandi) is a species in the family Crambidae, commonly known as crambid snout moths, belonging to the order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). It is classified within the subfamily Crambinae, tr

Microcrambus croesus - Hodges#5426

Microcrambus croesus

Identification: The FWs are mostly silvery white with a dark brown curved patch on the dorsum, dark brown along the costal margin, and an oblique dark streak off the costa in the postmedian area. The subterminal line consists of a pair of (usually)

Elegant Grass-veneer

Microcrambus elegans

Microcrambus elegans, the elegant grass-veneer moth, is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is found from Ontario, Quebec and Maine to Florida, west to Texas, north to Kansas and Illinois.

Microcrambus polingi - Hodges#5421

Microcrambus polingi

Identification: Adult : Ground color dull whitish, almost always heavily dusted with dark scales. PM and ST lines dark and infuscated, often obscured by dark dusting and clouding. Terminal line, thin, dark and distinct. Kearfott's Mexican specimens w

Yellow-veined Moth - Hodges#4796

Microtheoris ophionalis

Identification: Powell & Opler (2009) states "The wing colors vary from dark ochreous brown or rust brown with well-defined subterminal line, to pale tan with brown subterminal lines, and spring moths are darker than summer individual." ( 3 ) Adults

Whip-marked Snout Moth - Hodges#4795

Microtheoris vibicalis

Identification: Adult: forewing white or cream-colored with broad maroon AM and PM lines; AM line oblique, almost parallel to costa; PM line parallel to outer margin; fringe and strip along inner margin maroon; hindwing gray with long fringe of hairl

Microthyris lelex - Hodges#5264.1

Microthyris lelex

Identification: Description by Hayden & Dickel can be found at link in citations below.

Microthyris prolongalis - Hodges#5264

Microthyris prolongalis

Identification: The hyaline spot is much larger in the females. Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). ( 3 ) Holotype ♂ collected in Brazil.

Mimorista subcostalis - Hodges#5139

Mimorista subcostalis

Identification: "Distinctive" forewing pattern with the California specimens being smaller and less colorful. ( 3 ) Mimorista trimaculalis from Texas is similar; in need of distinguishing information. In his 1913 description of subcostalis , Hampson

Mimorista tristigmalis - Hodges#5141

Mimorista tristigmalis

Identification: The original description as Pilocrocis tristigmalis Hampson is available online in the print references below. Type locality: USA, Florida

Rufous-banded Crambid - Hodges#4826

Mimoschinia rufofascialis

Identification: Larva - strikingly beautiful. General body color is white, front half wine-red with partial bands of that color posteriorly. Rather like a barberpole, as its commom name suggests. Head is light yellow (adapted from Heinrich, 1921). La

Munroeodes thalesalis - Hodges#4934

Munroeodes thalesalis

Identification: This species was identified by James McDermott.

Musotima nitidalis

This species has a multi shaded brown forewing with white marks and is quite distinctive. Because this species is still rare in our area a photograph is required to support your record. Most records in Britain are from the period May to November. Thi

Nacoleia charesalis - Hodges#5178.5

Nacoleia charesalis

Identification: Adult : Color is brown with dark, grayish brown lines, distinctive only by dint of its extreme dullness. Labial palpi are upturned and uniformly colored. FW lines are sharply defined and fairly smooth. The PM is “B”-shaped (the curve

Nannobotys commortalis - Hodges#4822

Nannobotys commortalis

Identification: Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). ( 6 ) Powell & Opler (2009) reported the adults are diurnal , and common at flowers in March and April. ( 5 )

Streaked Orange - Hodges#4937

Nascia acutellus

Identification: Adult: forewing light yellow to orange or brownish with dark brown longitudinal streaks along veins hindwing pale yellowish with whitish or pale gray shading

Dimorphic Leafcutter Moth - Hodges#4769

Neargyractis slossonalis

Identification: The single species is distinguished from other members of the Acentropinae tribe by the dark brown forewing which has a distinctly paler AM band.

Scrollwork Pyralid Moth - Hodges#4743

Neocataclysta magnificalis

Identification: Hindwing has a yellow band along the outer margin with six black spots. Five of the spots have a blue center dot. ( 3 )

Neocymbopteryx heitzmani - Hodges#4806

Neocymbopteryx heitzmani

Known only from the type specimen, a male. From the species description: "Although the only known specimen was taken at "black light," the reduced eyes suggest that the species is adapted to daylight activity."

Black Grass-veneer - Hodges#5381

Neodactria caliginosellus

Identification: Adult: forewing dark brown to blackish with inconspicuous black PM and subterminal lines; ST line is irregularly jagged with small teeth - a distinctive feature; hindwing dark grayish-brown with pale yellowish fringe Larva: body pale

Neodactria murellus - Hodges#5382

Neodactria murellus

Identification: Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD).

Neohelvibotys polingi - Hodges#4979

Neohelvibotys polingi

Identification: Capps described the adult, including the genitalia.

Neoleucinodes prophetica - Hodges#5102

Neoleucinodes prophetica

Neoleucinodes prophetica - Hodges#5102 (Neoleucinodes prophetica) is a species in the family Crambidae, commonly known as crambid snout moths, belonging to the order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). It is classified within the subfamily Spilomeli

Neoleucinodes torvis - Hodges#5102.1

Neoleucinodes torvis

Identification: Description by Hayden & Dickel can be found at link in citations below.

Lygodium Defoliator Moth - Hodges#4896.5

Neomusotima conspurcatalis

Introduced to FL in 2008 as biological control agent for the Old World, or Asian, Climbing Fern, Lygodium microphyllum .

Kidney Moth - Hodges#4857

Nephrogramma reniculalis

Identification: Adult: forewing dark brownish-gray with white reniform spot, noticeably curved or bent in middle; AM line pale, scalloped, indistinct; PM line pale, indistinct, curving around reniform spot and terminating in small wedge at costa; hin

Water Hyacinth Moth - Hodges#5149

Niphograpta albiguttalis

Identification: Adult: forewing golden yellow speckled with gray, and with gray and blackish shading beyond PM line and in strip along costa; PM line sharply and deeply indented near inner margin, and with conspicuous white spots along its length; di

Noctueliopsis aridalis - Hodges#4834

Noctueliopsis aridalis

Type locality: USA, California, Imperial Co., Dixieland

Noctueliopsis bububattalis - Hodges#4837

Noctueliopsis bububattalis

Noctueliopsis bububattalis - Hodges#4837 (Noctueliopsis bububattalis) is a species in the family Crambidae, commonly known as crambid snout moths, belonging to the order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). It is classified within the subfamily Odont

Noctueliopsis palmalis - Hodges#4832

Noctueliopsis palmalis

Identification: The brown forewings have a reddish tinge. Type locality: USA, California, Riverside Co., Palm Springs

Noctueliopsis puertalis - Hodges#4831

Noctueliopsis puertalis

Identification: Described by Munroe in MONA Fascicle 13-1B as resembling Noctueliposis brunnealis but smaller (FW length 6-8 mm); maculation of FW less contrasting; AM/PM lines and discocellular lunule much weaker or even obsolete; PM line less stron

Noctueliopsis rhodoxanthinalis - Hodges#4836

Noctueliopsis rhodoxanthinalis

Identification: Forewing above bright pink. A contrasting, inwardly oblique, straight, yellow antemedial band, extending from R to basal part of posterior margin. A similar, somewhat less strongly inwardly oblique, postmedial band from R, to posterio

Noctueliopsis virula - Hodges#4838

Noctueliopsis virula

Identification: The original description as Noctuelia virula Barnes & McDunnough is available online in the print references below.

Rush Veneer

Nomophila noctuella

Wingspan 26-32 mm. When at rest, this moth has a very elongated and narrow shape, which makes it easily recognisable. A well-known migrant, it can often be found in large numbers at coastal watch-points but can also be found inland. Tends to occur in

Beautiful China-mark

Nymphula nitidulata

Wingspan 18-22 mm. One of the more distinctive and beautiful members of the Pyralidae. On the wing during July and August. It flies in the evening and at night, and comes readily to light. Larvae are aquatic, feeding on Bur-reed and other water plant

China Mark Moth - Hodges#4753

Nymphuliella daeckealis

Identification: The original description as Nymphula broweri Heinrich, is available in the print references below.

Odontivalvia radialis - Hodges#4829

Odontivalvia radialis

Type locality: USA, Texas, Big Bend NP, Chihuahuan Desert near Nugent Mt

Oenobotys texanalis - Hodges#4941

Oenobotys texanalis

Identification: From Munroe & Blanchard's original description : Similar in general appearance to O. vinotinctalis , but larger (FW 9 mm); FW wider, with apex sharper and termen less strongly convex; transverse lines of FW finer and less blurred; bot

Wine-tinted Oenobotys - Hodges#4940

Oenobotys vinotinctalis

Identification: Adult: forewing color varies from brownish-red to yellowish-red to pinkish-red with black AM and PM lines and two black discal spots, the inner one smaller and fainter than the outer one; median area may or may not be slightly darker

Omiodes martyralis - Hodges#5214.1

Omiodes martyralis

Identification: "100. Coenostola martyralis. 28 mm. Dusty reddish brown, the fringes on the forewings from the middle to the inner angle, whitish on the back. Both blemishes small, dull gray-brown; across the round a dusty brown, slightly curved tran

Omiodes stigmosalis - Hodges#5214

Omiodes stigmosalis

Identification: Warren (1892) original description as Tholeria stigmosalis is available online in the print references.

Orange Silver-Spot - Hodges#5294

Ommatospila narcaeusalis

Identification: This distinctive species is unlikely to be confused with others. Det. M. J. Heiman, 2008

Ostrinia marginalis - Hodges#4948

Ostrinia marginalis

Identification: Ferruginous. Body beneath and legs silvery white. Palpi porrect, smooth, broad, white beneath, nearly as long as the breadth of the head; third joint acute, minute. Abdomen cinereous. Legs smooth, slender. Wings rather broad, with a c

Smartweed Borer - Hodges#4947

Ostrinia obumbratalis

Identification: Specimen identified by DNA analysis: Genitalia:

American Lotus Borer - Hodges#4946

Ostrinia penitalis

Identification: Adult: forewing orangish to light brown with zigzag AM line and jagged PM line that includes a large projecting "tooth" near the inner margin; ST line jagged and more diffuse than PM line; outer part of median area with dark diffuse b

Oxyelophila callista - Hodges#4788

Oxyelophila callista

Identification: Original description is online as Argyractis callista in Forbes 1922, p. 102 . Forewing strongly falcate ; much of forewing white; PM line makes a deep graceful outward loop off of costa, then recurves to inner margin. Abdomen has bl

Palpita arsaltealis - Hodges#5222

Palpita arsaltealis

Identification: Adult: forewing light grayish-brown with heavy dark speckling; irregular dark patches in median and basal areas; hindwing similar but lacks large dark patches page creation based on Brian Scholtens' identification of images here and h

Freeman's Palpita Moth - Hodges#5225

Palpita freemanalis

Identification: This species has two rather sharply distinct forms. In one the ground color is gray and the dark markings fuscous; in the other the ground color is white and the dark markings bright orange. Intermediate forms sometimes occur. The gra

Kimball's Palpita Moth - Hodges#5219

Palpita kimballi

Identification: Adult : Semi-translucent satin white FW, with narrow orange streak along costa Type locality: USA, Florida, Englewood

Palpita vitrealis

Wingspan 27 to 31 mm. The wings are translucent with a slight sheen and an orange or brown leading edge. As an immigrant to Britain it is often found near to the coast. Autumn is the most likely period to encounter this species. Abroad, the species f

Paracorsia repandalis - Hodges#4992.5

Paracorsia repandalis

Paracorsia repandalis is here reported for the first time in the United States from Indiana by Jim Vargo. Specimens at the FMNH (Florida Museum of Natural History): Mishawaka, 41°37’46.2”N -86°08’13.9”, St. Joseph Co. on 11 Aug 2010 and again on 14 A

Parapediasia hulstellus - Hodges#5386

Parapediasia hulstellus

Identification: See Fernald, 1885 in Print References below Identified by Jim Vargo: