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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Hadenini » Trichocosmia » Trichocosmia inornata - Hodges#10219 (Trichocosmia inornata)

Species Trichocosmia inornata - Hodges#10219

Classification · Hodges Number · Pronunciation · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Hadenini
Genus Trichocosmia
Species inornata (Trichocosmia inornata - Hodges#10219)
Hodges Number
10219
Pronunciation
in-or-NAH-ta
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trichocosmia inornata Grote(1), 1883
Caradrina drasteroides Smith, 1903
Phylogenetic sequence # 932819
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 2 species of the genus in America north of Mexico. (2)
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2011) placed Trichocosmia drasteroides as a synonym of T. inornata leaving one species in the genus. (3)
Size
Wingspan about 25 mm, based on photo by Bruce Walsh from Arizona
Identification
Adult: forewing uniformly pale yellowish except for faint whitish subterminal line and very slightly darker shading in subterminal/postmedial area; hindwing white; top of head and thorax same color as forewing.
Usually the forewing markings are faint but can be well developed as in this individual. These more maculate forms were formerly referred to as Trichocosmia drasteroides. (3)

Specimen identified by DNA analysis:
Range
Texas(4) to California and Utah(5). (6)
Season
The main flight period is March to September with some flying earlier.
Remarks
The type specimens (a total of 6 males and females) were collected in Arizona.
See Also
Schina luxa forewing has several dark dots
Schina citrinellus forewing has a dark discal dot, and hindwing has broad blackish terminal band
Also see photos of S. citrinellus and S. luxa
Schinia snowi has a dark gray hindwing and does not occur west of Texas and Colorado
Sparkia immacula (Hodges #10218) forewing has no visible subterminal line

Oslaria pura
Print References
Grote, A.R. 1883. New species and notes on structure of moths and genera. The Canadian Entomologist. 15: 6.
Smith, J.B. 1903. New Noctuids for 1903.-No. 1. The Canadian Entomologist. 35: 13.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (7)
presence in California; list of 8 specimen records with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)
type specimen locality and references (Brian Pitkin et al, Butterflies and Moths of the World)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.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 .
3.Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico
J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.
4.Moths of Dallas County, Texas
5.Survey of Utah Moth Species
6.Moths of Southeast Arizona
7.North American Moth Photographers Group
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 28 February, 2008 - 6:59pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 17 April, 2024 - 12:35pm

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