Species Trichocosmia inornata - Hodges#10219

Classification · Hodges Number · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · See Also · Internet References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

No Taxon (Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea

Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Hadeninae

Tribe Hadenini

Genus Trichocosmia

Species inornata (Trichocosmia inornata - Hodges#10219)

Hodges Number

10219

Numbers

one of 2 species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps

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

Range

Texas to California, north to Utah

Season

adults fly from March to July in California

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 (compare images of these and related species by Jim Vargo at MPG)

Also see photos of S. citrinellus and S. luxa here and here

Schinia snowi has a dark gray hindwing and does not occur west of Texas and Colorado (see photo and distribution map at butterfliesandmoths.org, and pinned adult image at All-Leps)

Trichocosmia drasteroides forewing has a gray subterminal band, and median spots (see drawing #4 in plate taken from this page at U. of Massachusetts)

Sparkia immacula (Hodges #10218) forewing has no visible subterminal line

Internet References

pinned adult image (Bruce Walsh, Moths of Southeastern Arizona)

presence in Texas; list (Dale Clark, Texas)

presence in California; list of 8 specimen records with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)

presence in Utah; list (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)

type specimen locality and references (Brian Pitkin et al, Butterflies and Moths of the World)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 28 February, 2008 - 6:59pm
Last updated 9 March, 2008 - 4:58pm

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