Red-Spotted Sweetpotato Moth (Polygrammodes elevata)

About Red-Spotted Sweetpotato Moth (Polygrammodes elevata)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Arthropods
• Class: Insects
• Order: Butterflies and Moths
• Family: Crambid Snout Moths

Polygrammodes eleuata, the red-spotted sweetpotato moth or many-spotted moth, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1777. It is found in Central and South America, on the Antilles and in the southern United States, where it has been recorded from Florida.