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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Noctuoidea » Erebidae » Erebinae » Thermesiini » Thysania » Owl Moth - Hodges#8647 (Thysania zenobia)

Species Thysania zenobia - Owl Moth - Hodges#8647

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Owl Moth - Thysania zenobia Owl Moth at the WBC - Thysania zenobia - female Bent-Line Gray (?) Moth but has very wavy wing trailing edge, thinner antenna and is more brown. Flash washed the photo gray. - Thysania zenobia Bent-Line Gray (?) Moth but has very wavy wing trailing edge, thinner antenna and is more brown. Flash washed the photo gray. - Thysania zenobia Owl Moth - Thysania zenobia Owl Moth - Thysania zenobia - 8647 - Thysania zenobia
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Erebidae
Subfamily Erebinae
Tribe Thermesiini
Genus Thysania
Species zenobia (Owl Moth - Hodges#8647)
Hodges Number
8647
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orig. Comb: Phalaena zenobia Cramer 1777
Explanation of Names
Thysanus - Greek for a fringe (1)
Zeno is the common aglicized form of the Greek name Zenon (Ζηνων), derived from the theonym Zeus.
Numbers
1 sp. n. of Mex.
(A second species, the White Witch (Thysania agrippina) dubiously reported (2) from FL.) - TexasEnto
Range
NM-FL-NS-SK / south into South America. Interactive Range Map - TexasEnto
Season
U.S. records from June to December, but mostly from August through October. - TexasEnto
Food
Senna and Cassia spp. - TexasEnto
Life Cycle
Migrates north out of Mexico after the rainy season begins. - TexasEnto
Print References
Cramer, P. [1777]. Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9-16): 1-152.
Internet References
Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn
USGS
Moth Photo Group
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
By Donald J. Borror
2.Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico
By Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 12 November, 2007 - 8:49am
Last updated 10 January, 2012 - 8:21am

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