Southern Purple Mint Moth

Pyrausta laticlavia

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae

Pyrausta laticlavia, the southern purple mint moth, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It is found from New Jersey south to Florida, west to Texas, Oklahoma and California. In California, the species has expanded its range northward into the San Francisco Bay area (1990) and Sacramento Valley (1993) recently.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 2,583Mexico · 3

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Sam Kieschnick, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionPyrausta laticlavia, Wikipedia contributors

Southern Purple Mint Moth

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