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PARTIAL LIFE-HISTORY OF DICHOGAMA REDTEN-BACHERI, LED.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Harrison G. Dyar
Affiliation:
Washington, D. C.

Extract

The Pyralid genus Dichogama has not yet been reported from United States territory on the mainland, but at least three species occur in southern Florida. The following notes were made on the larva of one of them, D. Redtenbacheri.

Stage II. (?)—Head flat before clypeus high, mouth pointed; luteous, ocelli black; width .4 mm. Body a little flattened, translucent, yellowish, a geminate lateral brown stripe. Cervical shield large, colourless, brown dotted on the tubercles and on lateral edge; anal plate small, not marked. Tubercles small, brown; setæ long, stiff, pale. Skin sparsely granular; segments scarcely annulate.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1900

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