Volupial Pyrausta Moth
Pyrausta volupialis
33.1468, -117.009
Field Notes
Description:
Gorgeous pink moth with a snout nose and white marking on the wings. Volupia is Latin for the word pleasant.
Habitat:
Backyard on a rock in late afternoon. The range is "from Texas west to southern California spreading northward to San Fransisco, Colorado." - Wikipedia
Notes:
Their main food source is plants of the mint family.
"The Crambidae are the grass moth family of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). They are quite variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass-stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies include brightly coloured and patterned insects which rest in wing-spread attitudes.
In many classifications, the Crambidae have been treated as a subfamily of the Pyralidae or snout-moths. The principal difference is a structure in the ears called the praecinctorium, which joins two tympanic membranes in the Crambidae, and is absent from the Pyralidae. The latest review by Munroe & Solis, in Kristensen (1999) retains the Crambidae as a full family." - Wikipedia
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