| Caudellia galapagosensis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Caudellia |
| Species: | C. galapagosensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Caudellia galapagosensis Landry & Neunzig, 2006 [1] | |
Caudellia galapagosensis is a species of snout moth in the genus Caudellia . It was described by Bernard Landry and Herbert H. Neunzig in 2006 and is known from Ecuador's Galápagos Islands. [1]
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralidae as a subfamily, making the combined group one of the largest families in the Lepidoptera. The latest review by Eugene G. Munroe & Solis, in Kristensen (1999) retains the Crambidae as a full family of Pyraloidea.
Caudellia is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904, honoring his colleague Andrew Nelson Caudell.
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) west of the mainland. The capital city is Quito and the largest city as well.
