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  Plate 06 -- Micromoths   [ Size given for wingspan of specimen shown.   W after Hodges number = Western species. ]
  Sesiidae
2513 - Pennisetia marginata - [f.]
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
2513 - Pennisetia marginata - [m.]
© Anthony W. Thomas
 
2513 - Pennisetia marginata - 27mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2513.5 W - Sophona snellingi - m.
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2519 W - Zenodoxus rubens
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2523 - Paranthrene dollii
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2523 - Paranthrene dollii - 37mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2524 - Paranthrene tabaniformis - 23mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2524 - Paranthrene tabaniformis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2525 - Paranthrene fenestrata
© Bruce Walsh
 
2526 - Paranthrene robiniae
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2526 - Paranthrene robiniae - f. - [f. 'perlucida']
© Gary Anweiler
 
2526 - Paranthrene robiniae - f. - [f. 'perlucida']
© Gary Anweiler
 
2527 - Paranthrene simulans
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2527 - Paranthrene simulans - [m.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2527 - Paranthrene simulans - 30mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2527.99 - Paranthrene pellucida
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2528 - Vitacea admiranda - 31mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2530 - Vitacea polistiformis - [f.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2530 - Vitacea polistiformis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2531 - Vitacea scepsiformis - 23mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2531 - Vitacea scepsiformis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2532 - Albuna fraxini - 18mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2532 - Albuna fraxini
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2533 - Albuna pyramidalis
© Gary Anweiler
 
2534 - Euhagena emphytiformis - 25mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2534 - Euhagena emphytiformis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2535 - Euhagena nebraskae
© Gary Anweiler
 
2536 - Melittia cucurbitae
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2537 - Melittia calabaza
© Bruce Walsh
 
2538 W - Melittia snowii
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2538 W - Melittia snowii - 23mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2539 - Melittia grandis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2540 W - Melittia gloriosa - m.
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2543 - Sesia tibialis
© Gary Anweiler
 
2543 - Sesia tibialis - 29mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2543 - Sesia tibialis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2543.1 - Sesia spartani
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2545 - Osminia ruficornis - 12mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2546 - Synanthedon acerrubri
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2546 - Synanthedon acerrubri - 18mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2547 - Synanthedon geliformis - 18mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2549 - Synanthedon scitula - 14mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2549 - Synanthedon scitula - 16mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2549 - Synanthedon scitula - [f.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2549 - Synanthedon scitula - [m.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2550 - Synanthedon pictipes - 22mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2550 - Synanthedon pictipes
© Gary Anweiler
 
2550 - Synanthedon pictipes - 18mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2552 - Synanthedon rileyana - m. - 20mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2552 - Synanthedon rileyana - 23mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2552 - Synanthedon rileyana
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2553 - Synanthedon tipuliformis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2553 - Synanthedon tipuliformis - 15mm
© Gary Anweiler
 
2554 - Synanthedon acerni - 22mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2554 - Synanthedon acerni - 23mm - form tepperi
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2554 - Synanthedon acerni - 24mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2554 - Synanthedon acerni - [f.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2555 - Synanthedon fatifera - 22mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2557 - Synanthedon alleri - 24mm dorsal view
Archbold Biological Station Collection
 
2557 - Synanthedon alleri - 24mm - dorsal view
Archbold Biological Station Collection
 
2559 - Synanthedon bolteri - m.
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2561 - Synanthedon culiciformis
© Edward Holsten, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2561 - Synanthedon culiciformis
© Gary Anweiler
 
2561 - Synanthedon culiciformis
© Ron Wielgus
 
2562 - Synanthedon dominicki - 17mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2562 - Synanthedon dominicki
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2563 - Synanthedon fulvipes
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2564 - Synanthedon helenis
© Gary Anweiler
 
2566 - Synanthedon refulgens
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2567 - Synanthedon rubrofascia - [m.]
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2567 - Synanthedon rubrofascia - 23mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2567 - Synanthedon rubrofascia - 20mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2567 - Synanthedon rubrofascia
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2568 - Synanthedon saxifragae
© Gary Anweiler
 
2569 - Synanthedon sigmoidea
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2571 - Synanthedon decipiens - 12mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2571 - Synanthedon decipiens - 16mm
form 'rubristigma' -- Archbold Biol. Sta. Coll.
 
2573 -- Synanthedon sapygaeformis -- 17mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2575 - Synanthedon arkansasensis - 20mm
Archbold Biological Station Collection
 
2576 - Synanthedon bibionipennis
© John Davis
 
2579 - Synanthedon kathyae
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2583 - Synanthedon exitiosa - 30mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2583 - Synanthedon exitiosa - 29mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2583 - Synanthedon exitiosa - 25mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2583 - Synanthedon exitiosa
© Wendell Snow, USDA-ARS, Bugwood.org
 
2583 - Synanthedon exitiosa - 25mm
© Rex Moore
 
2585 - Synanthedon pini
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2586W - Synanthedon sequoiae
© E. LaGasa-WSDA
 
2587 W - Palmia praecedens
© Bruce Walsh
 
2587 W - Palmia praecedens
© Bruce Walsh
 
2588 - Podosesia aureocincta - 28mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2589 - Podosesia syringae - 31mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2589 - Podosesia syringae - 25mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2589 - Podosesia syringae
© Gary Anweiler
 
2589 - Podosesia syringae
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2590 - Sannina uroceriformis - 29mm
Archbold Biological Station Collection
 
2590 - Sannina uroceriformis - [f.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2590 - Sannina uroceriformis - [m.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2592 - Carmenta anthracipennis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2593 W - Carmenta apache
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2596 - Carmenta bassiformis - 17mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2597 - Carmenta corni
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2598 - Carmenta engelhardti - f.
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2598 - Carmenta engelhardti - m.
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2599 - Carmenta giliae
© Gary Anweiler
 
2604 - Carmenta ogalala - 16mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2608 - Carmenta pyralidiformis - 21mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2614 - Carmenta texana - 22mm dorsal view
Archbold Biological Station Collection
 
2614 - Carmenta texana - 22mm ventral view
Archbold Biological Station Collection
 
2617 W - Carmenta wellerae
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2617.1 - Carmenta wielgusi
© Ron Wielgus
 
2620 - Penstemonia edwardsii
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2622 - Alcathoe carolinensis - 29mm
Mississippi Entomological Museum
 
2622.1 - Alcathoe autumnalis - 28mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2623 - Alcathoe caudata
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2624 W - Alcathoe pepsioides
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2626 W - Hymenoclea palmii
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 

Photos credited to Bugwood.Org are from the archives at Sesiidae @ Forestry Images & Bugwood.org

Photos credited to William Taft & Mich. St. Univ. appeared in: A Guide to the Clearwing Borers (Sesiidae) of the North Central United States by William H. Taft, Dave Smitley and J. Wendell Snow. Michigan State University Extension, North Central Regional Publication No. 394, Updated March 2004, 32pp. Available at $13.50 plus shipping from MSU Extension Publications.
 





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