Parapoynx obscuralis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Parapoynx
- Species
- Parapoynx obscuralis
- Scientific Name
- Parapoynx obscuralis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Parapoynx obscuralis
Parapoynx obscuralis, the obscure pondweed moth, American china-mark or vallisneria leafcutter, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1881. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas and north to Wisconsin and Ontario. It is also found in Great Britain, where it is naturalised in aquatic nurseries through accidental introduction.
The larvae are aquatic and feed on various aquatic plants, including Vallisneria, Potamogeton and Nuphar species.
...Parapoynx obscuralis in languages:
- English
- Obscure Pondweed Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Parapoynx affinialis
- Parapoynx allionalis
- Parapoynx allionealis
- Parapoynx andalusicum
- Parapoynx andreusialis
- Parapoynx badiusalis
- Parapoynx bilinealis
- Parapoynx bipunctalis
- Parapoynx crisonalis
- Parapoynx curviferalis
- Parapoynx dentizonalis
- Parapoynx diminutalis
- Parapoynx euryscia
- Parapoynx fluctuosalis
- Parapoynx fuscicostalis
- Parapoynx ingridae
- Parapoynx insectalis
- Parapoynx leucographa
- Parapoynx longialata
- Parapoynx luteivittalis
- Parapoynx maculalis
- Parapoynx medusalis
- Parapoynx minoralis
- Parapoynx moriutii
- Parapoynx nivalis
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- Parapoynx ophiaula
- Parapoynx plumbefusalis
- Parapoynx polydectalis
- Parapoynx rectilinealis
- Parapoynx reminealis
- Parapoynx restingalis
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- Parapoynx sinuosa
- Parapoynx stagnalis
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- Parapoynx votalis
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