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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Coenipeta » Coenipeta bibitrix - Hodges#8665 (Coenipeta bibitrix)

Species Coenipeta bibitrix - Hodges#8665

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Coenipeta bibitrix Coenipeta bibitrix - Hodges #8665 - Coenipeta bibitrix Coenipeta bibitrix - Coenipeta bibitrix Coenipeta bibitrix
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)
Family Erebidae
Subfamily Erebinae
Tribe Omopterini
Genus Coenipeta
Species bibitrix (Coenipeta bibitrix - Hodges#8665)
Hodges Number
8665
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Coenipeta bibitrix (Hübner, 1823)
Coenipeta glaucescens Walker, 1866
Numbers
There are two named species of Coenipeta in America north of Mexico.(1)
Size
Wingspan about 30 mm.
Range
Southern Florida and southern Texas , south to northern South America
See Also
Coenipeta medina , which is also found in south Texas. (pinned photo at Moth Photographers Group)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Institut[*e] National de la Recherche Agronomique - pinned photo from Martinique
Moth Photographers Group - photo of pinned adult and related species.
Works Cited
1.Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico.
Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by tom murray on 22 January, 2008 - 7:50pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 19 November, 2013 - 12:42am

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