The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Lepidoptera

(aquatic moths)

 

 petrophila

CRAMBIDAE

Petrophila sp.

syn: Cataclysta sp
syn: Paragratis sp.
syn: Paragyractis sp.

Species reported
          from Texas:

 

 


Petrophila bifascialis

Petrophila cappsi

Petrophila daemonalis

Petrophila jaliscalis

Petrophila kearfottalis
Distribution Citations*

1971 Kent
1975 Longley

1980 Davis scdldr
1980 Davis scdpr
1980 Davis scdrg
1980 Lind & Bane
1982 mdcc
1982 Richardson
1984 Smith sl
1988 Bowles & Short
1989 Short & Smith

 

 

1991 Whiteside & Arsuffi
1992 Bayer et al
1992 Camilo
1993 Camilo & Willig
1993 Gren
1995 Kane
1996 Hansen
1997 Croyle
1997 Hulsey & Nelson
1998 Moring Rosendale
         Ansley Brown
1999 City of Austin
1999 Levine

[2000 Abbott]
2000 Halloran
2002 Moring

notes:
*most species are lentic scrapers of periphyton (Croyle 1997)

*larvae in silk enclosures attached to submerged rocks; bivoltine life cycle (Croyle 1997)

*some species in the genus do not key correctly; the genus needs some taxonomic attention (Abbott 2000)

*refs are for reports of genus only; species refs not included here; [ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated
copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser 
                          2010

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