Asciodes
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| Asciodes | |
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| Asciodes quietalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Spilomelinae |
| Tribe: | Asciodini |
| Genus: | Asciodes Guenée, 1854[1] |
Asciodes is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae.[1] The genus was erected by Achille Guenée in 1854 with Asciodes gordialis as type species.[2]: 374 [3]: 217
The five species are distributed from the southern United States (California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, South Carolina) and Mexico over the Caribbean (Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles) to the tropical and subtropical South America (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador).[1][4][5][6]