Elophila gyralis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Elophila
- Species
- Elophila gyralis
- Scientific Name
- Elophila gyralis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Elophila gyralis
Elophila gyralis, the waterlily borer moth, is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Duryea Hulst in 1886. It is found in eastern North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
The wingspan is 16–30 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing year round in the southern part of the range.
...Elophila gyralis in languages:
- English
- Waterlily Borer Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Elophila acornutus
- Elophila africalis
- Elophila aristodora
- Elophila atlantica
- Elophila bourgognei
- Elophila brunnildalis
- Elophila daemonalis
- Elophila difflualis
- Elophila drumalis
- Elophila ealensis
- Elophila ekthlipsis
- Elophila faulalis
- Elophila feili
- Elophila fengwhanalis
- Elophila fluvialis
- Elophila gyralis
- Elophila icciusalis
- Elophila interruptalis
- Elophila manilensis
- Elophila maralis
- Elophila melagynalis
- Elophila minima
- Elophila minimalis
- Elophila miurai
- Elophila nebulosalis
- Elophila nigralbalis
- Elophila nigrolinealis
- Elophila nuda
- Elophila nymphaeata
- Elophila obliteralis
- Elophila occidentalis
- Elophila orientalis
- Elophila radiospinula
- Elophila responsalis
- Elophila rivulalis
- Elophila roesleri
- Elophila scitalis
- Elophila separatalis
- Elophila sinicalis
- Elophila tinealis
- Elophila turbata
- Elophola scitalis





























































































































































