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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
 
2523 - Paranthrene dollii
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2524 - Paranthrene tabaniformis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2526 - Paranthrene robiniae
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
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.
 
2530 - Vitacea polistiformis - [f.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2530 - Vitacea polistiformis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2532 - Albuna fraxini - 18mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2543 - Sesia tibialis - 29mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2543 - Sesia tibialis
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2543.1 - Sesia spartani
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2546 - Synanthedon acerrubri
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2547 - Synanthedon geliformis - 18mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2549 - Synanthedon scitula - [f.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2549 - Synanthedon scitula - [m.]
© James Solomon, USDA-FS, Bugwood.org
 
2550 - Synanthedon pictipes - 18mm
© Jim Vargo
 
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 - 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
 
2563 - Synanthedon fulvipes
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2566 - Synanthedon refulgens
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2567 - Synanthedon rubrofascia - [m.]
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
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
 
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
 
2589 - Podosesia syringae - 25mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2589 - Podosesia syringae
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
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.
 
2597 - Carmenta corni
© William Taft & Mich. St. Univ.
 
2614 - Carmenta texana - 22mm dorsal view
Archbold Biological Station Collection
 
2614 - Carmenta texana - 22mm ventral view
Archbold Biological Station Collection
 
2622.1 - Alcathoe autumnalis - 28mm
© Jim Vargo
 
2623 - Alcathoe caudata
© 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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