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Usingeriessa onyxalis

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Usingeriessa onyxalis is a moth of the family Crambidae. It is native to southern Texas, Mexico and Central America. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.^[5]

The larvae are thought to be aquatic.^[5]

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Druce, Herbert (1896). "Cataclysta divulsalis". Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Heterocera. Vol. 2. Published for the editors by R. H. Porter]. p. 272; Pl. 63, Fig. 13 {{cite book}}: External link in |postscript= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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^ Walker, Francis (1865) [1866]. "Cataclysta divulsalis". List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. pt. 33-34. London: Edward Newman. p. 1336.
^ Hampson, George F.; Bart (1897). "On the classification of two subfamilies of Moths of the family Pyralidæ: the Hydrocampinæ and Scoparianæ". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1897 (2): 149. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1897.tb01679.x.
^ Dyar, Harrison G. (1917). "Notes on North American Nymphulinæ". Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. 5: 77.
^ ^a ^b Munroe, Eugene G. (1995). "Usingeriessa onyxalis (Dyar) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Nymphulinae), a Moth With Presumably Aquatic Larvae, Newly Recorded From Hawaii, With a Synopsis of Hawaiian Nymphulinae" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 42: 39–42. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)